Ohhhh :))) Thank you, Alan, all involved, Sun etc. Let me respond later after having had a look. Many regards and a nice (rest of the) day to the U.S.A.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Alan Coopersmith >> <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: >>> [Reply-to set to xwin-discuss, since this isn't governance related.] >> >>> The only one that Sun currently has rights to publish source for is the >>> ast driver in progress, which is simply the Xorg xf86-video-ast modified >>> to work with the /dev/fb driver for that device. ? I've asked that when >>> it's ready we merge it into the ast driver in the open Xorg gate, both >>> to make it open and to share maintenance & update burdens with the existing >>> x86 version, and the SPARC Graphics engineer has agreed to work with me >>> to see if we can make that happen, once she's finished the other work needed >>> on the ast driver. > > I just pushed her changes to the xf86-video-ast driver to the two fox gates. > (Ignore the incorrect e-mail address on the fox-gate push - my process for > pulling changes from the Nevada gate to the fox gate assumes Sun NIS account > name and opensolaris.org account names are the same, and apparently some other > user has an opensolaris.org account with the same name as her Sun NIS account. > This will be fixed when we convert the Nevada gate from Teamware to Mercurial, > hopefully sometime this summer.) > > It uses the newly defined common ioctl set from > ? ? ? ?PSARC 2009/224: visual_io.h ioctl definitions > instead of the model of each driver having it's own set of > driver-private ioctls used by previous SPARC fb drivers. > > More details are in: > ? ? ? ?PSARC/2008/757: SPARC support for AST graphics > >> Errm, two further ?follow-up questions: >> >> * ?Will the ast ?/dev/fb kernel driver be derived from DRM? >> * ?Will the ast /dev/fb kernel driver go into the open-src OS/Net gate? > > Unfortunately, the answer to this, for now at least, is no. ? It's derived > from code provided by ASpeed, and thus open sourcing needs to be worked out > with them. ? (They contributed the xf86-video-ast driver to X.Org, so they > have some experience there.) > > -- > ? ? ? ?-Alan Coopersmith- ? ? ? ? ? alan.coopersmith at sun.com > ? ? ? ? Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > >
