Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> Hmm...didn't FOX gate have Martin's ports of drivers for some
> of the legacy SPARC graphics hardware? Having a fair bit of same
> still in use, those are still a matter of concern for me.
Yes, but those aren't in sync with current X servers, and he hasn't
touched them in the FOX gate since March 2009 - in fact, we're coming
up on the one year anniversary of the last commit by anyone to the
fox-gate hg repo - August 17, 2009. If Martin's still working on them,
he's been doing it somewhere else.
> It'd be great to see them separable from the basic X server, if Oracle
> doesn't wish to maintain them, so that they could be an addition from
> a separate repository, rather than requiring an entire alternative X server.
That requires someone to actively maintain them, since the Xorg driver API/ABI
changes between upstream releases.
> Either or both of those are presumably for the community to deal with;
> but it would sure help if coexistence with (rather than replacement of)
> "standard" software were possible.
I am happy to add new source repositories and committers to the FOX project
if people want to do work there, but right now, no one is. (Other than the
project gates we're using to stage the upgrades to new Xorg versions before
they're ready to integrate to the main Nevada gate, like the Xorg-1.9-merge
gate I recently made there - but only Niveditha & I have been working on those.)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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