Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> It does literally say
>
> "Sun is making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software,
> and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and
> deployment and further, is REAFFIRMING ITS COMMITMENT TO OPEN SOURCE
> THIS SOFTWARE."
Hmm, I missed that part. There's still nothing more I can add at this
time though.
>> We have a prototype of the XVR-2500 (kfb) Xorg driver that the
>> SPARC graphics group has provided running on an Ultra 25 in our
>> lab - it's got basic 2-D support, but still needs 3-D and added
>> features like resize added. Once that's done, they've promised
>> to do the same for XVR-100 & XVR-300.
>
> We have about 100 of the XVR-100's so thats of considerable interest.
> Although OS X does 3D on virtually the same board, XSun does not. Would
> you expect 3D in the sparc Xorg version?
>
> Xine runs very nicely with the XVR-100 by tickling the hardware
> directly. Should we expect an XV extension for it through the Xorg work,
> so it could work with other media players?
>
> Finally, any kind of rough timeframe for the XVR-100 work? 6 months?
Given how long XVR-2500 took, I would be surprised if it's that soon,
and have no idea the feature set the SPARC team plans on including.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
