Alan:
You forgot FBPM. It makes sense that we should put that one
out there. It will require some 'modifications' to be ready
for prime time....
JC
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Felix Schulte wrote:
>
>>> X Window System MED
>>
>>
>> Maybe this should be changed to "HIGH" - Sun has very interesting X11
>> extensions which should be released as soon as possible to allow their
>> integration in the current xorg tree. Later integration may
>> significantly more difficult as the Sun X11 and xorg source trees
>> become more and more different with each day - and the current
>> modularisation effort at xorg will trigger even more porting problems.
>
>
> The Sun X11 and Xorg source trees become more and more alike with each
> day as reducing the differences is a major goal of ours.
>
> I'm not sure which X11 extensions we have though that would be useful
> to Xorg that haven't been released. The SolarisIA code is actually
> out there, though not ready to integrate into Xorg CVS yet (will work
> on that after the Xorg 7.0 release is done). We already contributed
> Xevie for Xorg 6.8. SUN_DGA is the same basic concept as Xorg's
> already existing DRI. SUN_SME provides a very small performance boost
> for some applications by using shared memory instead of Unix sockets to
> transfer data - we'll probably release that once we get it ported to Xorg.
> I don't know much about SUN_ALLPLANES or SUN_OVL - I think ALLPLANES is
> only interesting if you have multiple bit depths on the same screen, which
> few modern graphics cards support any more, since 8-bit support is all but
> dead. I know Xorg has some overlay support, but don't know how it
> compares
> to SUN_OVL.
>
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Jay Cotton Jay.Cotton at sun.com
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Sun Microsystems Inc. - X11 Server Group
Operating Platform Group
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