> [...] > > ISTR that the MAJC > [...] > > Oops, forgot to finish the sentence. Meant to say, > > ISTR that the MAJC-5200 instruction set was said to > have been online at one > time. (Given the nature of the beast, I gather one > would need to know about > instruction timing as well, if there were any need to > fool with the board > at that level, i.e. if any new MAJC code were needed > to port the driver to > Xorg (which I hope wouldn't be the case, but don't > have the info to know...)
Personally I'd like to see the obsolete Sun Hardware documentation and driver source code released on opensparc.net and opensolaris.org, so volunteers could port Sun hardware / learn from it. I'm still using an Ultra 80 and SunBlade with XVR-1000 Graphics, maxed out with ram, both have LSI SAS Controllers, 2.5" SAS Hard drives and Crystal Eyes Stereo Vision. Ensuring that volunteer support for older sparc machines remains, provides a larger market for sparc upgrades in future when Sun eventually produces multi core, perhaps Rock based Workstations. This also provides a cheap option for students & hobbyists to dabble in sparc architecture and keep non x86 architecture alive long term. This message posted from opensolaris.org
