> Ken Mays wrote: > > Alan Coopermith said: > > "I would love to see someone pick up the work and > finish it off, but I certainly > > don't have the time either. I'm willing to provide > some assistance to anyone > > who wants to make a serious attempt though." > > > > What does Sun want/need the community to do to > attempt this mission?? Provide some guidelines and > things to look into so we have some guidance. > > Officially, Sun doesn't want or need anything - Sun > management seems to be happy > with not supporting older graphics cards on Xorg. > > Personally, I would like to see enthusiasts have some > solution here, but I'm > not Sun, I just work here. > > As for what needs to happen - Martin Bochnig did a > lot of work to make the > existing X.Org open source SPARC graphics drivers > build and work with the > Xorg server we deliver on SPARC. He stopped though > before merging that > work into the FOX gate or any other OpenSolaris code > repository that the > community can use - so what needs to happen is for > someone to figure out > how to use or re-create that work and integrate it > into the FOX gate or > even prepare it for putback to the Nevada master > gate. No one has done > anything like this before, so there are no guidelines > or instructions, this > is pure figure-it-out-as-you-go work. > > Of course, what happens if someone does that is a > good question - I don't > know if we'd just leave the sources in the tree so > others could build them > or if we could persuade the SPARC graphics team to > support the drivers they > didn't have time to port themselves so that we could > put them in an official > OpenSolaris or Solaris release. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- > - alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System > em Engineering
Okay, I needed to stop for a few months. Now I'm in a situation where I can continue my suspended projects. I have upgraded 12 test machines to snv_95, with ZFS-root on SPARC :-) I'm merging the old stuff into my local checkout of the official fox-gate: ~/fox/bringover/XXX__fox-gate into ~/fox/fox-gate/mercurial/20080816sat This can take a few days (or weeks?), due to my day-job. Do I still have write access? Thanks. %martin - - Martin Bochnig Vinnitsya, Ukraine http://visgetidentifier.blogspot.com/ This message posted from opensolaris.org
