Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> No general purpose bus scan is performed. 
>
> Right - on SPARC, the DDX module is chosen not by PCI bus scan, but by 
> calling
> ioctl(fd, VIS_GETIDENTIFIER, &visId) on /dev/fb (or the device specified
> by -dev) and then looking up that id in /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig.

Yeah, just like in wsfb_drv.so ...
While at least the PGX32 seems to call something with a different name.

>
>> But one thing is clear: Whoever implements this wrapper may not 
>> require Xsun's sources, but at least a sufficient set of its object 
>> files. Plus sunInit.c (and maybe others) in src.
>
> We should be able to release the Xsun module loading code (and if needed,
> much, but not all of Xsun's code - the primary areas known to be off 
> limits
> are DPS and the TrueType font engine - most everything else just takes 
> work).

Ohh   :-)


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