Ken Mays wrote:
> A better solution is that we can at least redistribute the closed source
> drivers which seems possible with the available driver packages. ensure
> developers wantng to build a "Indiana on SPARC" distro can do so without
> licensing fees or issues.
The problem with that is while the SPARC Xsun drivers are redistributable,
Xsun itself is not. Indiana for SPARC will only be possible with Xorg
drivers, such as the open source ones Martin Bochnig ported.
> Otherwise, the only thing to open up "whatever" prevents ISV/IHVs from
> porting their video device drivers to SPARC hardware. So if a developer wants
> to port ANY open source video device driver to SPARC workstation hardware
> (i.e. Sun Ultra 25/45) - they can do so without question or pain from
> 'closed' bins or APIs.
Xorg & the kernel are open source - there's nothing more to open up
there, and nothing stopping them aside from the small size of the market
for SPARC graphics cards.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
