[I'm out of the office until Jan. 2 like most other Sun US employees,
but still checking e-mail every couple days - I haven't responded yet
to the previous messages in this thread since I haven't had any
answers - I'm as eager as you to hear from the SPARC graphics team
when you'll be able to test an XVR-100 driver for Xorg - I have no
idea what their schedule is.]
Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Hello Ken, when quoting (fragments from) previous communications, please
> label them appropriately. Especially when you modify them and/or put them out
> of context. This will help to increase the "read-ability" of the entire
> thread.
>
>> I was thinking of:
>> 1. Xorg 7.3
>
> I'm already talking about what is going to become Xorg 7.4++ (current git).
> Porting the Sun-patches to a new Xorg-server revision is a ton of boring
> work, especially as you cannot just upgrade the server (and associated
> Sun-patches) in isolation to a new rev. It will also affect many
> interdependencies and costs yet another ton of testing. I.e. Xorg rev. and
> Mesa rev. have to be compatible. Sun's X11 group is certainly working on that
> day-in and day-out. But you have to ask Alan if they really take that trouble
> for 7.3, or if they are waiting for 7.4. Xorg 7.3 is badly tested (especially
> outside Lintel), yet doesn't offer many new features. I'm not sure if it is
> worth the effort or if Sun wants to omit 7.3 and then straight upgrade to 7.4.
I'd been waiting for Xorg server 1.4.1, which was originally planned for
release in early November, but has slipped and not released yet.
At this point, our attention is focusing on bringing the X client libraries
and apps up to the current X.Org - basically doing the work to sync the
versions in the FOX gate into the main Nevada gate, merging in the changes
we've got in our old X11R6-forked gate, and doing ARC review for anything
needed (see the previously posted status list in the genunix wiki for details).
The refactoring of our packages for IPS is also looming on the horizon soon.
Given the work needed for those and the planned X11R7.4 / Xorg 1.5 release
in March, it's looking increasing likely that for the X server we'll just
skip ahead to that, sometime after the initial Indiana release.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
