Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> #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.
That's clear. But we here at "fox-discuss" (at least I) didn't focus on this. Maybe we can accelerate it a bit, especially in terms of the problematic systems (SB1500, SB2500, U25, U45, T1000, T2000 and the USIV and Olympus servers). I mean, I never had any deep look at libpciaccess. And I still don't have any of the systems mentioned, not even a SB1500, those animals are rare on ebay and therefore totally overpriced, if available at all. Maybe one can simulate the SB1500 situation on one of the older systems. By just removing the supported Schizo and Psycho code from sparcPci.c and then trying to get Xorg working, despite having removed that stuff from sparcPci.c, so that's on my TODO list. I'm also investigating xgl_onTopOf_Xsun+VintageSunOpenGL, but I think that's really the last choice, in cases where Xorg will never have driver support. -- Martin
