Alan: > Even if no SPARC workstation is ever sold again after the end of > the current UltraSPARC-IIIi line, it's not the end of the SPARC > desktop, nor of being able to develop and/or run SPARC desktop > applications. > > Other options include: > - Sun Rays running off a SPARC server > - Using X11 to remote display 2-D apps from a SPARC server to > another box > - Using VirtualGL/Sun Shared Visualization to remote display 3-D > renderings from a SPARC server to another box > - Using Transitive software to run SPARC applications on x86 boxes
Isn't the main issue for Sparc OpenSolaris users the lack of Sparc driver support for the Xorg Xserver? I believe Sun has spent some time writing a driver or two, but (if I remember correctly) the work was never really finished. Is that correct? If so, is there any chance that whatever code has been written could be shared with the external OpenSolaris community. Perhaps it would accelerate development if we got external people more involved with the development? Or is the source code already available, and I just am not aware? I also seem to remember you telling me that you had some sort of "dummy" Xorg driver which worked for Sparc, but was fairly slow since it doesn't support some Xserver extensions that would take advantage of any acceleration on the graphics card, or something like that. Is that memory correct? If so, would there be any value in sharing that dummy driver with people so to help development? Brian
