On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Ken Mandelberg wrote: >> Martin Bochnig wrote, On 10/29/2008 12:09 PM: >>> a few months ago? >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/;jsessionid=624904B2F09B1FFA84A7490487C4A194 >>> XVR100 works since April 2007. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Ken Mandelberg<km at mathcs.emory.edu> >>> wrote: >>>> Just looking for an update, the last posting was a few months ago. >>>> >>>> Any hints when we will see a Sparc/SB1500/XVR100 Xorg? >>>> -- >>>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> xwin-discuss mailing list >>>> xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> >> >> I'm running build 101. Do I need the test binaries from that URL, or is >> it already integrated? >> >> If it is in 101, what do I need to do to switch from Xsun to Xorg? >> >> If its not in 101, when will it be integrated? > > Martin's drivers are not integrated into SXCE, and I have not heard of > any definite plans to integrate them. The SPARC graphics team is > providing their own Xorg drivers for XVR-2500 (already in SXCE), and > XVR-50/100/300 (planned for the OpenSolaris 2009 sparc release, but > not SXCE - see their ARC case for details). Tim Cramer is polling > the community on support for older SPARC devices in the OpenSolaris > SPARC distro release and knows that Martin's drivers are an option > for that, should Sun decide to support some of the older SPARC devices. > If not, Glynn & I have talked about making them available as > supported-by-community-but-not-Sun drivers in the OpenSolaris repo, > but no work has been done on that yet (since there is no SPARC repo > yet, and we should be on Xorg 1.5 first). > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > >
i do understand, that sun didn't want to spend money by paying developers for porting xorg drivers to sparc-solaris. what i do N O T understand, however, is that they may decide not to use them, even though that they are available for free now, because I did the work for free, since 2006. this has never been on the table. if sun is serious about this, then it will be serious ...
