On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> Further: I find it very interesting that nobody responds. > > Sadly, no one else seems to say much here besides you and me, and I was busy > with non-work stuff all weekend. I know this is your spare-time project, > so the weekend and off hours is when you work, but it's my day job, so I'm > usually working on it Monday-Friday.
Anybody working with or porting SPARC graphics drivers definitely has my support. I'm typing on a Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 at the moment with a PGX64 framebuffer, and hope to get a chance soon to play around with the 'wsfb' driver in Xorg that's shipping with a recent Nevada release. I remember talking to Alan on IRC and hearing that 'wsfb' can only do 8-bit color. Maybe I'll get a chance to dig through the code soon and learn the ioctl's for the framebuffer. In any case, Martin, if you need me to test any code, I'll be glad to (I've got a PGX64 and an Elite3D). I suspect Alan has more resources than I do, though. :-) I also would be very interested in taking a look at the reference code that was released re: CG6. I don't have a lot of experience writing drivers, let alone framebuffer drivers for Solaris, and I think a reference document detailing a framebuffer implementation would be a huge help in my efforts. Thanks, Derek E. Lewis delewis at acm.org http://delewis.blogspot.com
