> 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.
Sure. I sometimes tend to take the term "open-solaris" too much by its actual wording. But okay, proprietary drivers also exist for other os's, even misc. closed Xorg_modules for linux. And, in this case, 3Dlabs is to be blamed. They didn't release any open src driver, after they aquired the wildcat line 7 years ago. > > 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. In which build? I only rarely power on my Ultra20, which is my only x86 box. It still has snv39 on disk. Everything else is sparc (where xsvc did not ship so far). > > 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) Aehm, I believe it was the "Realizm", but the exact model doesn't matter, as no code has ever been publically available. > is working with > Xorg in the lab now. It still has some bugs, but > isn't impossible to do. [...] > 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. Oh, I hardly ever used Solaris x86 after 2001. So if such a module converter already exists (in whatever direction), it is certainly very cheap for SUNW the get that done. Cheap, in the sense of being easy, quick and with stable results. I make myself dumb here with instable (written_for_different_platforms) -Xorg modules, and such a converter already exists ? :-) Bhaa. Some light please. -- Best reagrds, martin Bochnig This message posted from opensolaris.org
