Alan brings up a good point which gets reiterated now and then. A lot of what we are trying to do is improve the XSun/Xorg implementation on SUN-based distros. This is controlled by MANAGEMENT whom are influenced or consulted by the ENGINEERS (somewhat).
Nothing wrong with the obvious picture. Five years ago, my suggestion of having OpenGL 1.5/2.x on Solaris x86 was considered heresy or blasphemy. Today, Nvidia OpenGL 2.1 is the backbone of many great 3D apps running on Solaris x86. Also, I have the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 fully tested and running under Solaris x86 (2D only, 1920x1080 resolution). We are also on the dawn on ATI R500/R600 GPUs running at full HW acceleration with an upcoming Xorg 7.4+ release on Solaris x86. On SPARC, I have the Sun XVR-600 running Sun OpenGL 2.0_07 under XSun. Fully HW accelerated and does the job. Not redistributable by non-Sun distros, but available in a package bundle to the community. So, maybe we are not looking through the glass clearly. Let us simplify our wants or needs from Sun. Also, how we can be involved to support Sun's objectives and what THEY don't (and do) want or need. Sun does not sell Sun SPARC workstations or the legacy graphic cards. So, we can utilize the included XSun drivers and Sun OpenGL for now. As for the open source OpenSolaris side of things, we can implement the full Xorg 7.4 architecture (as is being done today) and focus on the included Xorg video drivers and ATI/Nvidia closed source video driver issue on SPARC. You heard me. Imagine ATI RadeonHD 1.2.3 drivers on the SPARC platform. Before we start barking at the moon, take time out and look at the stars... ~ Ken Mays -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
