[indiana-discuss] SPARC-Xorg legacy hardware support

[Martin Bochnig]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Glynn Foster wrote:

>
> On 25/08/2008, at 4:48 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
>
>> This wonderful community seems to lack every interest in this.
>> And if SPARC-Indiana ever ships, it will only work on today's "supported" 
>> hardware (which is currently limited to the XVR-2500 and may even include 
>> two additional frame buffers in the future [XVR-300 and XVR-100 / maybe 
>> also the upcoming XVR-50]).
>
> I think it would be really valuable to get this work into the repository, so 
> that people running on SPARC platforms outside that of the "supported" could 
> have a reasonable chance for running OpenSolaris on them. We hope some degree 
> of SPARC support (mostly through automated install) will be ready for 2008.11 
> (November) or soon after, so it seems like good timing. I can't speak for any 
> of the other OpenSolaris based distributions though.
>
>
> Glynn


Hi,

it is good to hear this from you, thanks.

But really, I'm asking myself if there is actual interest. Because only 2 
or 3 interested users have ever contacted me since 2006. That makes me 
wonder if it was worth it.

regards
%martin