[indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Xorg transition from XSun on SPARC

[Martin Bochnig]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Frank Middleton
<f.middleton at apogeect.com> wrote:
>> ship with 2009.06, namely 1.5.3. ONLY BAD NEWS: MANAGEMENT HAS NO
>> PLANS TO MERGE IN fox-gate. Without the fox-gate's special SPARC
>> enhancements, the server shipping as PART OF 2009.06 WILL NOT EVEN
>> DETECT UPA CARDS. SOS, HELP, *PLEASE*:  I hope MANAGEMENT CHANGE THEIR
>> MIND. Otherwise afb- and ffb- support can only be provided, if I set
>> up an IPS repo somewhere on one of my private sites. So please nail
>> Sun with questions like this, this saves you and others like you and
>> even Sun much trouble, then.
>
> I doubt that I have any more influence than you do, but Sun probably
> realizes that its most energetic fans are amongst those that will
> have problems when XSun is EOL'd. But it sounds like even if they
> don't, all is not lost, thanks to you! But I really can't understand
> why they couldn't at least host your repo on opensolaris.org. Maybe
> someone from Sun can answer this?
>
> We will start Xorg testing after installing snv111 or 112, or when the
> 2009.06 release comes out. Thanks again...



Yes, I know: It doesn't make sense at all.
I also don't know why I did it.
Now they they do not even include it in their Indiana distro.

I'm glad that at least you are interested in - and happy about - it.
Nothing to thank, y.a.w.