Frank Middleton wrote:
> I suppose it would be silly to ask why XSun couldn't be left in?
It's license is incompatible with the OpenSolaris license, due to the
encumbrances of the third-party code in Xsun.
> It just occurred to me that Open Solaris is supposed to be well, open
> source.
> Is there any reason why the Sparc community couldn't do their own port?
None at all, but the one person who tried to port the BSD/Linux Xorg drivers
(and got most of them working) has been repeatedly frustrated at the lack
of interest in helping or even testing his work by the SPARC community, and
he quit trying. We're still hosting the work he did so far on a project
gate on opensolaris.org should he decide to try again or someone else decide
to take up the cause.
> If Sun were to release the information we'd need to do such a port,
Sun cannot release the information for the cards such as XVR-600 as we
are bound by NDA's with the companies like ATI & 3Dlabs they were OEM'ed
from.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
