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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Martin Bochnig wrote:
> 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?

Because sw-porters just opened up the sourcejuicer process last week and
I hadn't gotten around to sending mail suggesting it yet.   I apologize
for thinking of possible solutions and not immediately telling you about
them.   (Well, I'd mentioned before getting them into the contrib repo
when it was ready - it was just last week that sourcejuicer became ready
to take contributions to that repo and I'd thought that we should use it.)

See the announcement and pointers to more info at:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/sw-porters-discuss/2009-March/000445.html

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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