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

[Martin Bochnig]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:

>> 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.

This sounds like sarcasm.

Also: Don't forget that we are not discussing a solution "for me", but
"FOR THE PROJECT".
If you fail to see this, we can wait until 2009.06_SPARC ships, if you prefer.
I guess more users will request "legacy" Xorg support then.


> (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


This looks promising in many aspects.
In case of Xorg, however, at the minimum the UPA bus scanning patch
(from last week) needs to go into the core Xserver. Only all the other
stuff like ddx modules and mesa can go into an additional repo. If the
UPA patch cannot go into the Nevada Xorg server, then I will always be
forced to offer the whole stuff (inncluding the xserver) as complete
replacement. This looks like a waste. Or at the minimum would I then
need to use another base directory. Then your version could co-exist
with my modified one, which is still redundant on one hand, and
half-complete on the other.


SPARC'y (and x86/x64 influenced) regards,
proud OpenSolaris.org community member and Sun-fan,
CA 0335,
%martin bochnig

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