Ken Mays wrote:
> 1. Are there any issues with merging Xorg 7.3 with Nevada or SXCE/SXDE
> releases?
Unfortunately, I think this release was rushed out too soon - there is
no platform on which you can build all the released tarballs together,
which just seems wrong to me. We finally have all the input drivers
building again in X.Org git, but there's a lot that need a release with
those changes in still. (I pushed out a bunch of the fixes to the
X.Org git masters, but having no way to test them, haven't done releases
of the associated drivers yet.)
Beyond unbuildable drivers, the other issues blocking Solaris
integration I can think of are:
1) The driver ABI changed incompatibly - if we drop it in now,
the nvidia driver breaks. Nvidia is working on a compatible
release, so this shouldn't be an issue for long. (The only
other out-of-tree drivers for Solaris I know of at this time
are in frkit, and Casper's used to new releases breaking his
drivers.)
2) The input hotplug stuff uses HAL & DBUS - I haven't looked much
at this yet, but at the least it's going to take some extra work
in preparing the ARC review to document the interaction and make
sure we're using the right interfaces.
3) Last I checked the keyboard LED's weren't working at all, and I've
seen mail from people on other platforms who were also still having
this problem - a little thing, but the sort that fills our incoming
bug queue if we don't get it fixed before integrating.
> 2. What is the proposed date when moving to Xorg 7.3 ??
Sometime after all the above issues are resolved and I think
we can do so without causing regressions and complaints.
Right now, I have no idea when that will be, and I've got
higher priority tasks to work on, and don't know of anyone
else working on it, so can't even guess.
Fortunately, I can't say there's much most users will miss in
not having this right away - there's little user visible change
beyond what we've got now.
> Note: I saw the FOX-gate for Xorg 1.3.99 but not Xserver 1.4 yet. So just
> getting an early start!!
Huh? Nothing newer than 1.3.0 is in there, nor should it be
given the above mentioned issues.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
