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

[Martin Bochnig]

err, forwarded to indiana-discuss, because it wasn't in CC  ...


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From: Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] Xorg transition from XSun on SPARC
To: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>
Cc: Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com>, OpenSolaris X Window
System List <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Xorg for SPARC is already supported by Sun, but only for a limited set of
> frame buffers.   In OpenSolaris 2009.06, that will be:
>        XVR-50, XVR-100, XVR-300, XVR-2500, AST2100
>
> The XVR-50 & AST2100 are builtin to certain servers, XVR-100 is a PCI bus
> card (ATI Radeon 7000 ME-based), XVR-300 & XVR-2500 are PCI-Express bus cards.
>
> Whether or not we get the drivers Martin ported into the contrib repo
> as usable-but-not-supported-by-Sun is an open question, based mostly
> on whether someone finds the time to convert them to spec files that
> can be built with sourcejuicer and submitted to the pending/contrib
> repos through the processes described in sw-porters.  (I'd like to do
> it, but my personal to-do list is already several years long, so if
> you or Martin or some other interested community member is willing to
> do the work, that will get it done much much faster.)


Of course I will do this.
Nobody EVER told me.
If we are a team ... ? Why?


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>        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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