They do have the sources and offer binaries for Xorg on x86/x64. I guess, they could quite easily offer sparc versions as well.
3Dlabs never released any sources publically, with the singular exception of having had an NDA agreement with www.xig.com (except for the newest drivers [which are, however, less relevant to Solaris_sparc, because they were never sold as SUNW branded cards]). You have the chance to _totally_ move from Xsun to Xorg on sparc, while maintaining hw backward compatibility and serving (previous [potentially future]) customer's choice. Haven't you a similar deal with www.xig.com for your ftp://www.xig.com/pub/Summit/xsvc4/? (that /dev/xsvc linear mem access driver shipping as part of Solaris x86 for years) ? The wildcat based cards may never work in Xorg, otherwise, without such a deal. Nobody, not even Dave Miller, could write a driver without any detailed specs and docs. Just wondering, would be really nice. That's only wishful thinking from my side. I know, the Xsun driver modules are re-distributable for a while. And the /dev/fb console drivers are pretty useful for marTux_0.3 (due soon), or any other sparc distro that might come up in the future. But I never managed Xorg's module loader to get only close to successfully loading an Xsun driver module (such as /usr/openwin/server/modules/ddxTSIgfx.so.1 for the PGX32) Seems to be a slightly different format over the years now. Or, if you don't want to make a deal with 3rd xig.com, could you please pay some bright person to write an extension to Xorg's module loader, for making it compatible enough to load vintage Xsun drv modules? Thank you Regards --Martin This message posted from opensolaris.org
