[indiana-discuss] Problem Statement for 2008.11

[Alan Coopersmith]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/problem_statement/

Some specific comments on pieces in my neck of the woods:

>         DSK-4: Systems (including laptops) upon connecting to an external
>                video display, should automatically probe the resolutions of
>                that external display and provide an easy interface (on the
>                panel, or through the menus) to set the display to that external
>                device.

I don't know if anyone is working on that or not - but I've heard at Xorg that
on some hardware, polling for newly connected monitors is a big battery drain -
and on other hardware, we just can't do it, so manual methods will still
be needed on those machines.

> DSK-8: Provide the set of 'known to work' XOrg graphics drivers to allow some
>                SPARC systems to run a graphical desktop environment.


So what counts as "known to work Xorg graphics drivers"?   I can fairly easily
build & package all the SPARC graphics drivers that work on Xorg on Linux/SPARC,
including many which the Sun SPARC graphics team would prefer to EOL - but would
have to leave testing/tweaking/fixing to someone else, and I don't know which,
if any, work on Solaris/SPARC.   (Well, I know which ones Martin Bochnig said he
got to work, but many of those included adding the equivalent of /dev/xsvc to
SPARC to get direct access to the hardware behind the kernel & fb driver's back,
and I can guess how badly trying to get that past PSARC will fly.)

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