You might have noticed that xorg-x11 has entered its next release cycle,
leading up to -6.9.  Currently, it is package-masked and has no sparc
keyword.  In the next day or so --- certainly by the end of this week
--- I am going to build it and start testing.  If it works, I'll give it
a ~sparc keyword.  If you want to play with it, you'll have to unmask it
yourself in /etc/portage.

Documentation at freedesktop
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/#head-7f9963a87b2eb461fc821f70af0cecbb33788ba8 
indicates that the sunffb -xaa- patch is now included with the standard 
distribution, and comments at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259
suggest that the sunleo fix is included, too (although summary comments
do not so indicate).  If these are the case, I'll start cleaning up
various associated Gentoo bugs.

NOTE: For those of you who have been living under rocks, the xaa/render
improvements for sunffb are incompatible with DRI, and Creator/DRI is
therefore disabled in the xorg-x11 sunffb driver.  With this, all
pretense of Creator+DRI+xorg-x11 is gone.  (The Mesa/openGL libraries
are still present and usable, of course.)

Oh, yes.  How do you recognize the ebuilds for pre-6.9?  Look for
xorg-x11-6.8.99.xx.  (Hm, that's the subject line of this note, isn't
it :-) )

Comments, test results, feedback welcome.
Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc)

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