Martin Bochnig wrote: > SUNW-deciders: please license the closed Wildcat drv's from www.xig.com > They do have the sources and offer binaries for Xorg on x86/x64. > I guess, they could quite easily offer sparc versions as well.
The people who would be involved in such a decision are not on this mailing list, nor would they be likely to respond publically to such a message, since even if we would license drivers from another company, that's usually handled confidentially. > 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 xsvc was replaced a few builds back with an open source replacement. > The wildcat based cards may never work in Xorg, otherwise, without such a > deal. The XVR-2500, based on some 3DLabs chipset (I forget which one) is working with Xorg in the lab now. It still has some bugs, but isn't impossible to do. > Nobody, not even Dave Miller, could write a driver without any detailed specs > and docs. The SPARC graphics group has specs, docs, and sources to the driver written by 3DLabs. > 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? We've discussed the idea of a Xsun driver->Xorg bridge module (much like we've had a XFree86 driver -> Xsun bridge module for x86 drivers for a long time), but no one in management has yet decided it's worth hiring someone to do or taking an existing person off other projects to work on. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
