Dear FOX's friends (at xwin- and indiana- discuss), I guess you already knew it all the time: Of course am I continuing with (my part of) project FOX, including x64/x86 from now on, keeping them both in sync, most importantly making and keeping the fox-gat multi-ARCH clean. But furthermore getting full DRM/DRI support working where somehow possible. On all those frame buffers currently being limited to *BSD_x86 or LinUX_x86 (I had suspended those efforts for ten days, but especially on x64/x86 it looks promising already).
Here is what I have done yesterday and today: Having added SUNWxorg-xkb to Alan's framework. But not just having "added it", but really (more or less properly) having integrated it (incl. having added a make install target to xkb). Plus having added/integrated freeglut, openmotif, gdm (, mrxvt earlier this week) plus icewm. When I add such stuff, it has to do more, than just to somehow work a bit. With unedited automatically generated (pkgadd-) prototype files, without any licence header, platform splitting, with no !search directives, nor anything else. That is exactly why it takes me "a bit" longer, for which I can only say "I'm sorry." yet another-another-another time. I'm planning a binary pkg release for x64/x86 and SPARC at some point soon (really soon, this time / on Saturday evening?!). Plus the long-promised Wiki regarding frame buffer support on SPARC, with pointers to a few special instructions, where appropriate. Plus pushing in the, then hopefully cleaned-up, stuff into the public gate. Main goal in mind is providing a ready2run set of packages to every and any distro interested in using, building on and re-distributing them. Whether on SPARC, or on x64/x86. Indiana is such a candidate which I would love to see using FOX :-) %martin p.s. Pls. don't feed this thread. It's only a status update, no more / less. This message posted from opensolaris.org
