> Colby, > > See: > http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/entry/xorg_for_solaris_spar > c#comments > "Drivers for UPA cards like Creator (ffb) and Elite3D > (afb) probably won't be ported by Sun. Someone who is > interested may be able to port the support from BSD > or Linux. For PCI cards based on the ATI chips (PGX, > PGX-24, PGX-64, XVR-100), we may be able to leverage > the x86 Xorg ATI drivers, but have not yet determined > if we can or will do so. Right now, XVR-2500 is the > only card with Xorg plans set, with the rest to be > determined. > Posted by Alan Coopersmith on February 16, 2006 at > 04:32 PM PST #" > > Well, that was well over 22 months ago and Xorg 7.3 > is released. > > Now read this periodical releasting to a RoHS > ruling: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/ > 2007-June/001373.html > "For SPARC though, given the limited resources still > working on SPARC graphics, > they've agreed only to port the devices still sold by > Sun today - and thanks > to the purge of cards that didn't comply with the > European & Chinese Reduction > of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) rules last year, > that's only the XVR-300 & > XVR-2500 PCI-E cards for the latest generation Ultra > workstations and the > XVR-100 PCI card for previous generations. (In > years past, Sun designed it's > own graphics cards - for SPARCs with graphics on the > Sbus or UPA bus, it's > got a Sun designed card - but the economics of that > got to the point where Sun > moved to the PCI (and later PCI-E) busses and OEM'ed > graphics cards - all PCI > graphics in SPARCs are OEM'ed from ATI, 3DLabs, or > TechSource.)" > > "1) Ship existing SPARC OpenGL, with accelerated > modules for existing > SPARC graphics cards (closed source - and I don't > know if it's > redistributable) - with Xsun, this has > acceleration for most of the > mid-to-high end SPARC graphics cards, with Xorg, > only XVR-2500 is > known to have usable hardware acceleration - I > don't know if the > others will easily work with Xorg or not once the > framework is in place. > > 2) Ship open source Mesa OpenGL, as we do on x86 (and > virtually all other > open source OS'es do), accepting that we'll have > no hardware acceleration > and break compatibility with existing SPARC OpenGL > applications" > > A lot of good info - my only concern was the comment > on Sun OpenGL 1.5 which was a small issue between > Mesa 3D and Sun OpenGL porting a few years ago. > > Any legacy Sun SPARC card besides the > XVR-100/300/2500 (i.e. IMHO) will most likely stay > Xsun-only under Sun's current support model. > Communitywise, you have to resolve the Sun OpenGL > porting to Xorg as well. > > ~ Ken Mays
I have to wonder about your "history summary". It is not only slightly incomplete in terms of development progress on the triple (OpenSolaris; SPARC; Xorg), but once again manages to confuse some things, while lacking others. When I see messages like that, any tiny consideration concerning whether or not to return abruptly terminates. Because it is not only for free (except to myself!!), but then not even remembered by 99.98% of the community. KM> Any legacy Sun SPARC card besides the XVR-100/300/2500 (i.e. IMHO) will KM> most likely stay Xsun-only under Sun's current support model. KM> Communitywise, you have to resolve the Sun OpenGL porting to Xorg as well. --->> Wrong! <<--- The following chips/cards are already more or less reliably supported by Xorg, as mentioned time and again on this list: ###SUPPORTED:### PGX(8), PGX24, PGX32, PGX64, XVR-100 plus *all* UPA cards in all their different flavours, variations and models (many different SUNW xoptions numbers) whith the single exception of the XVR-1000. Support for host machines/pci bridges includes all Ultra and Blade workstation models, with the exception of the SB1500, SB2500, Ultra25, Ultra45. ###UNSUPPORTED### The following cards are currently still unsupported by Xorg: Expert3d, Expert3dlite, XVR-500, XVR-600, XVR-1000, XVR-1200. ###PARTIALLY UNSUPPORTED### The CG6 Sbus card does have driver support, but SBus scanning doesn't find it on my Ultr1 and Ultra2. The XVR-200 and XVR-300 do have driver support, but are untested (and, before all, the modern PCIe aware host machines' pci briges needed to be added to sparcPci.c first). ###Ready2run binary pkgadd packages:### http://www.martux.org/xorg/FOX1.0/SPARC/ ###Src diffs### http://www.martux.org/xorg/FOX1.0/src/ /* Posted to xwin discuss and CC'ed to opensol discuss via jive */ This message posted from opensolaris.org
