--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:
> From: Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert
> 3D, legacy graphic cards
> To: "Alan Coopersmith" <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>
> Cc: "OpenSolaris X Window System List" <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>,
> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org, "Jensen Lee" <haydude at haydude.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:18 PM
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Alan
> Coopersmith
> <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>
> wrote:
> > Jensen Lee wrote:
> >>> So what now again? Where are you all??
> >>> Alan offered us THE EXITING solution, I
> suggested he
> >>> should do it and
> >>> we all found a FullyOpenXsun "project", and
> exactly
> >>> now when it really
> >>> matters, nobody is here anymore?
> >>
> >> This is EXCELLENT! Something good is finally being
> achieved out of this discussion.
> >>
> >> Alan please could you let us know what will be
> your next steps?
> >
> > I wait and see if the community steps forward with
> something more than talk.
> >
> > A first step would be someone gathering a list of
> people committed to working
> > on it, and going through the opensolaris project
> creation process to get
> > yourself a mailing list and source repository setup.
> >
> > I don't have much spare time at the moment, and work
> to release Xsun sources
> > would come out of my spare time, not as a management
> sponsored project, so I
> > can't promise when sources would be released. ? (The
> source release process
> > involves verifying that each source file has no
> encumberances and then adding
> > the open source license notice to any files with Sun
> created code that doesn't
> > already have it. ? Fortunately, much of the core Xsun
> code is from the X11R6
> > sources, so is already open source.)
>
>
>
> yeah, except for all ddx relevant parts.
>
> count me in along with everyone interested.
>
> p,s. it is all of us's spare time.
>
> thank you!!
>
>
> %mab
>
>
> >
> > --
> > ? ? ? ?-Alan Coopersmith- ? ? ? ? ? alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> > ? ? ? ? Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System
> Engineering
+1. I think we needed the Xwin->Xorg wrappers or conversion utilities....
~ Ken Mays
