+1 here as you might have guessed. From what has been posted here thus far, it seems that getting it into the Open Solaris build process is going to be a major hurdle. I'd be quite happy to write code, although I suspect that there won't be a whole lot of that, but I would like to contribute in any way that would be useful...
I seem to have missed an email or two (thanks, Martin for putting xwin-discuss back in the CC list!) but FWIW emancipation seems to me to be an entirely suitable albeit tongue -in-cheek description of the goal. May I take this opportunity to thank Alan for volunteering to help make this possible? If this succeeds it's going to make quite a few folks very happy! Looked at the wording on http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/LegacyVideoSupportProject, and I suspect that there might be some confusion - please correct me if my suspicion is incorrect. There are two separate strategies for supporting legacy frame buffers. One is Martin's port of the BSD drivers so that xorg will work with legacy Sun fbs. The other is to effectively make XSun available on Open Solaris much as it is now on sxce as an option instead of xorg (but not distributed with Open Solaris because of the encumbered binaries). The BSD approach can't support certain proprietary hardware, but it has the advantage of being somewhat more future proof. The XSun approach will support most (all?) Sun fbs, but may not support all features that might evolve in xorg unless this project can identify such features and port them to XSun. AFAIK these are really separate projects, although they could be supported in one, they have completely separate code bases in that XSun and xorg are forks from a common code base a very long time ago. The current wording on genunix at least of the synopsis and description seems to conflate the two, but maybe the project proposal doesn't (not seen by me because perhaps it wasn't sent to xwin discuss?). AFAIK we're only talking about the XSun approach for now... Cheers -- Frank
