> Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > >> Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > >>> For the ones they designed in-house (most or all > >> that used the UPA bus, for > >>> example), I think maybe it's more about lack of > >> resources to get them opened up. > >>> (I filed a request for info on the XVR-1000 on > >>> http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home > >>> in May 2008 (others filed requests for the > Elite-3D > >> and Creator-3D in April 2008), > >>> and those requests are still open...which is > >> frustrating. > >> > >> They're probably lost in limbo somewhere, since > the > >> people those requests would > >> have been sent to in 2008 don't work here any > more. > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > Could you ask around? > > Ask where the requests are? I suppose I could, > though to be > honest, I'm not sure the point. Even for the cards > where there > are existing open source drivers, there has been > exactly one > community member who was interested enough in old > SPARC workstations > to work on porting them, and he struggled to find any > users interested > in testing them.
Well, I've got a high-end Creator-3D as well as an XVR-100 and an XVR-1000. There's plenty of them still out there. I think the problem is that it's just easier to keep on running Solaris 10 or SXCE. But if that's all one does, it's a dead end. I can do a little, but can't dedicate hardware to testing for any great length of time, nor indeed spend more than a few hours a week on it. And if I started now, it would be at least months before I understood the X server and frame buffer driver code... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
