Martin Bochnig wrote: > The PGX32 / Techsource Raptor GFX 8P /dev/fb console driver is missing from > http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sparc_graphics/graphics-bins-20061016.sparc.tar > > . > Is there any legal issue associated to it?
I have no idea, though I believe Sun just passes through the binaries from TechSource. > Next question, does anybody have test access to those few systems with > XVR-200 > or XVR-300 We have two of each of those in our lab, but they've never been plugged into anything. (We don't have a T2000 in our lab, so would have to put the XVR-200 in another machine with PCI-X slots.) > Next question, is support for older SBus cards (like Leo) not wanted? By who? I'm sure some user out there wants support, just as some want support for OpenSolaris on their sun4c & sun4m machines, but I wouldn't spend a lot of time on it, since there's just not that many out there. > (The Ultra2 (A14) Workstation - still officially and fully supported by > Nevada - could well have one of the following frame buffers: I think the only Sbus cards ever officially supported in those were the cg6 series (TurboGX/TurboGXPlus). > Outlook: I currently have no idea in terms of how we could get the > following cards/chipsets to function inside Xorg (except - at least > potentially - by means of the wsfb X11<-->console driver hybrid) : > > XVR-2500 > <http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Devices/Graphics/GRAPH_XVR2500.html> > This one is being ported by the SPARC graphics team - I've seen an early prototype driver of it running under Xorg 7.2 - it was drawing windows on the screen and moving the mouse cursor around, but had color issues that needed to be fixed. > XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator > <http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Devices/Graphics/GRAPH_XVR_4000.html> > I don't even have access to one of these (they were throwing out a bunch the other day, but since they require an V880z machine, which I don't have, I didn't go get any). I wouldn't waste any time on these given how few ever sold. > Doesn't this look promising? > Maybe you can put Xsun into "maintenance mode" on sparc as well, just as > on x86/x64. We already have. 8-) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
