Alan Coopersmith wrote: > The SPARC graphics organization is not planning on porting the > semi-accelerated drivers for graphics like m64 that haven't been > sold in quite a while - they're concentrating on the more recent > cards. I'm running Xorg on my Ultra 10's onboard m64 right now, > but it's using a "dumb" frame buffer driver (wsfb) that just mmap's in > the correct amount of memory and sets values in it, without using any > acceleration functions provided by the hardware. I haven't actually > done performance tests to see how slow or fast it could be.
Interesting, I also played with wsfb last summer. I would enjoy to see some kind of Xorg at sparc project coming up on opensolaris.org Similar to the qemu thing. Thoughts, interest? I have a full range of the required testing hardware available. -- Martin Bochnig SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, TOEFL, GMAT, Student of Maths (from March on also SCJP1.5) Director of www.martux.org (major marTux updates for sparc and amd64 to be released in spring 2007) http://www.martux.org/RELEASES/sparcv9/ (LiveCD/DVD for sparc) http://www.martux.org/RELEASES/x86_and_x64/DVD/ (LiveDVD for x64/x86) http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu/leaders/ (SUNWqemu pkgs for sparc and x64/x86)
