Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage Architect, Office of the Chief Technologist, Sun MicroSystems wrote: > > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> peter brouwer wrote: >> >>> Are there plans to port the via code to solaris? >>> See for source code >>> http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action >>> >> >> All I see there is Linux kernel fbdev sources - not X11 sources. >> > Yep, sorry used the wrong url >> We plan to switch our X.Org driver from the current xf86-video-via >> to xf86-video-openchrome in the future, but we have no plans to ship >> any via driver that's not produced in cooperation with the X.Org >> community. >> >> VIA hardware is too rare and little used for Sun to have much interest >> in assigning people to port drivers ourselves - if someone else wanted >> to do so and integrate it, I don't see why we'd refuse. We're just >> concentrating our X driver efforts on the 3 vendors that cover 98% of >> the x86 graphics market - nvidia, ati, and intel. >> > I do not agree here. Those small (via) boards are very popular for > appliance use. > The one that is of interest to Sun is a filer/media server appliance. > Openstorage NAS/CIFS/NFS server in a shoebox, low energy (green, also > fits Sun green mantra). > The board I use has 4 sata ports, build in audio and graphics and uses > about 15W. > Stick 4 250/500G drives in there with ZFS and you have a very powerful > file server. This is the market nexenta is aiming at. > > So I do think it is important to opensolaris!
Sounds like a machine that's very attractive for reasons unrelated to its graphics performance. Run it with the vga driver. Stuart
