Ken Mays wrote: --->> > Ok, I'm going to bring this SPARC graphics stuff up > to a whole new level. <<---
@Ken, what you write sounds reallllly amazing. But can you tell us *how* you intend to bring support for Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600, XVR-1000, XVR-1200, XVR-4000 into Xorg? All those are proprietary and not even one of the best Xorg driver developers (from the Xorg devel list) could write a driver without the device specific specs, which are not available for those chipsets (which is not Sun's fault, except maybe in case of the last Sun-inhouse designed card, the UPA frame buffer XVR-1000 aka FFB3, with Java cpu). That's hopeless, unless Sun decides to pay for it: To have some Xsun_ddx modules ported to Xorg_ddx behind closed doors. Although this port is not trivial, as you can see from the Xsun-DDK's cg6 ddx userland module versus OS/Net's cgsix kernel driver. Versus Xorg <= 7.3 which does everything in userland. Xorg and Xsun went different ways since each of them began to support loadable ddx modules (Xsun in about 1994 / Xorg later, in 1997). Two completely incompatible approaches and implementations of doing things. > > Migrating to Xorg 7.2 and above: > > These are being moved to legacy support: > * Elite3D Graphics Accelerator (afb) > * Creator and Creator3D Graphics Accelerator (ffb) > * Sun XVR-200 Graphics Accelerator (mko) > * Sun XVR-1000 Graphics Accelerator (gfb) > * Sun XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator (zulu) > * Sun Expert3D, Sun Expert3D-Lite and Sun XVR-500 > Graphics Accelerators (ifb) > * Sun XVR-1200 and Sun XVR-600 Graphics > Accelerators (jfb) > * PGX32 Graphics Accelerator (gfxp) > * Sun PGX64 Graphics Accelerator (M64) > > Moved to primary server/desktop support > * Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator (pfb) > * Sun XVR-300 Graphics Accelerator (nfb) > > Moving to primary 3D desktop support > * Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator (kfb) > * TBD > > ~ Ken Mays F-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c ! This message posted from opensolaris.org
