Martin Bochnig wrote: > There are two potential solutions on the horizon: > #A) Sun should release enough specs allowing anyone to enhance the current > pci scanning frame work (here mostly sparcPci.c) to the missing pci bridges > (such as found in most newer systems [now on cpu-dies for a while]). Sun > could also hire someone to do that port internally, behind their firewalls, > if really necessary.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home shows the specs released so far, including a couple of the UltraSPARC host bridges. I haven't looked at either them or the OpenSolaris kernel sources to see if they have enough information to help extend Xorg's code. > #B) An alternate approach would be, to forget about Xorg's current pci > scanning on SPARC's, X.Org is already moving from the current pci scanning to libpciaccess, for which Edward Shu in Sun's Beijing video driver team contributed the Solaris port - I don't know if the interfaces it uses solves the SPARC bus scanning problem or not though. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
