Hello, > From: Linda Fellingham <Linda.Fellingham at Sun.COM> > Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPARC? > Cc: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org, Ben Taylor <sol11x86 at comcast.net> > Message-ID: <475D7E54.8030108 at Sun.COM> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Unfortunately, we just don't have the resource within the SPARC graphics > group to spend any time on all the work that is required to open source > the drivers for obsolete SPARC hardware. We have barely enough resource > to adequately support current Sun customers on the graphics cards that > we OEM from AMD and Creative Labs. I have asked those companies if we > could explore open source for these drivers (their confidential > information was used in providing hardware acceleration), but neither is > willing, at present, to do so.
Are the drivers from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sparc_graphics/ rewrites or direct forward ports of the original SPARC drivers? I am wondering, if no work is being done on them, how well they perform, compared to the original Sol 9 / Sol 10 drivers. Thanks for any comments. -- S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org
