> 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.
Very true for the XVR-1200 and such that the OP mentioned; OTOH, I'm still waiting to hear something about a year after requesting the info on the XVR-1000, which AFAIK was pretty much totally Sun (using their MAJC chip, etc). I understand that resources are short and priorities are many. But it is frustrating to have an indestructible workstation with passable capability even by modern standards (and certainly lots of bandwidth and RAM) limited to using an XVR-100 or at best a Creator 3D (the latter only if Martin's changes get integrated, even if only as community-supported). Or using Xsun, which tends to work less well with modern approaches to font rendering and anti-aliasing, let alone changing resolutions on the fly, etc. (I admit I still miss DPS on Xorg, but realistically almost nothing uses it anymore.) Everything's a trade-off, a balancing act. I guess I'm just tired, and want to see quick solutions, of the mushroom cloud order of finality (or disproportionality). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
