Hi, okay. I will continue. Need to find a job elsewhere, outside. Then I can work on the wrapper module etc. Could you please upload the old Solaris 2 Xsun DDK to a publically available location?
> I've been kicking around an idea in my head the past few days, and > figured I'd try to write it up and send it out for comments, to see > if it makes sense to anyone else. > > The Fully Open X Project (aka Project FOX) will create a public > Mercurial gate on opensolaris.org containing a merge of these > three source bases: > - the current OpenSolaris X code drops published by the Sun X team > - the Xorg SPARC driver sources created by Martin Bochnig for Martux > - the full X11R7.2 source builds created by Moinak Ghosh for Belenix > > This would provide a common source base for distros to build from, > a faster release path for Sun's changes than releasing a snapshot > tarball every 1-2 months, and access to changes not yet accepted > by Sun's process into Solaris Express. > > While the long term goal is Solaris API/ABI compatibility, that won't > be achieved initially (since Sun is still working on opening the > sources required for certain API's not yet in open source releases). > This will not be the master gate for Solaris for a while, but may > eventually be the master gate for the open portions of the Solaris X > consolidation. > > Initial commit access to the source tree would be given to Martin, > Moinak and myself, though others could be added if they want to > work on this. > > Comments? Would anyone find this useful? If it was available, > would you use it? Sounds good. I for my part will use it, at home just as well as on the new - pending - MartUX release. But we can't natively support closed 3rd party SPARC fb's like the Expert3d, Expert3dlite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200. At least I cannot, because of their nature, which is closed to me. The wrapper module should be possible to implement. Public access to DDK would be pre-requisite, maybe this could become a sub-project. -- Martin Bochnig
