Excellent! My idea is same. Let SUN say clearly what they plan
to do regarding ATI drivers so we could organize ourselves to
*try* to do the rest. Or maybe SUN is interested in some kind of
cooperation with community - few engineers from SUN and we.
This way we could build also some part of ATI driver base. Also,
SUN could build some part alone.
Uros Nedic
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:39:01 -0700
> From: maybird1776 at yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would like to help porting
> To: urosn at live.com
>
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> --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Uros Nedic wrote:
>
>> From: Uros Nedic
>> Subject: RE: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would like to help porting
>> To: maybird1776 at yahoo.com
>> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 8:27 AM
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>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> Do you want to say that we shouldn't organize ourselves
>> regarding implementation of ATI drivers to OSOL
>> because SUN'll do that or stop our contribution or
>> what?
>>
>
> Well, the thing to do is know whom at Sun you can talk to.
>
>> I also want to help in this project, since in my country
>> ATI is very popular graphic card. Much more than
>> nVidia.
>>
>> If you you already did some significant contributions to
>> OSOL and you plan that ATI DRI/DRM support
>> starts in next two or three nevada builds, then I it looks
>> like we shouldn't do anything more than wait
>> few weeks :).
>>
>> Uros
>>
>
> My point is to only say - know where you are today and where you want to be
> in a few weeks. I wanted Sun to clarify what they are or not doing with
> the ATI drivers or supporting pieces so at least people can understand what
> they need to do or not do.
>
>
>
>>> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:45:54 -0700
>>> From: maybird1776 at yahoo.com
>>> To: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would
>> like to help porting
>>>
>>> See:
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2006-August/000296.html
>>>
>>> The conversation goes back a few years...
>>>
>>> Well, the devil is in the details. I'll also add
>> in mentioning "complaining" I was
>>> addressing that "I" had complained in the
>> past about not having updated ATI Radeon 2D drivers, OpenGL
>> 1.5-3.1, or Xorg 7.x - but Sun did deliver although with
>> limited resources which may have taken longer than expected
>> - but they did it. So, complaining can be a good thing if
>> done constructively - no??
>>>
>>> The other part is just getting organized on whom will
>> work on what. Alan mentioned before that Sun Xorg group is
>> mainly the 'implementors' and 'maintainers'
>> of Xorg/XSun on Sun. Now the SPARC group is a part of the
>> Sun Xorg team. All of the video driver implementation and
>> maintenance falls within reach of this one group.
>>>
>>> So, this gets into what team other than the Sun Xorg
>> team is involved in any type
>>> of FreeDesktop.org-related projects (like the Sun DRI
>> team, Gallium3D integration team, etc)???
>>>
>>> Martin has spent a few years doing a lot of work on
>> video driver support on SPARC/x86 machines as well as other
>> people I can mention. My stance now is just getting the
>> Radeon 3D driver working (again) under the newer OSOL
>> snv_118-120 distros to support pre-R600 based ATI video
>> cards for now. Since there are Sun-internal teams
>> 'still' working on this and the DRI/DRM framework
>> then this will help whomever is involved porting their piece
>> into the solution or supporting their own OSOL
>> distribution(s) - like Belenix.
>>>
>>> ~ Ken Mays
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