On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> wrote: > I originally wrote the following to explain the transition to our > team, and it's been shared with wider and wider audiences internally > since then. I've had several people suggest I post an external > version to explain to the community and users at large what's changing. > > I've modified it to use the external sites/terms, dropped some internal only > details like WebRTI usage, and to incorporate pointers to the revised ON IPS > transition schedule Liane posted this week - I know she's working on > docs for the IPS transition that overlap a good deal of this, but > this focuses on the nearer transition off of SXCE. > > Anyone have any suggested changes before I mail this off to > opensolaris-announce? Any details of non-desktop bits that > should be covered in there with Xsun & CDE? > > -alan- > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Nevada: What's going, what's staying, what's changing, what's not > > What's changing at build 131: > > - The OS install images will only be available in IPS packaged formats. > This means installs will be done via LiveCD (x86) or Automated > Installer (SPARC or x86) - the old Install DVD, network install, > jumpstart, and live upgrade all rely on the SXCE/SVR4 packaged > images, which will not be available after build 130. > > For X, there's one additional wrinkle that doesn't affect most other > consolidations - we've not packaged Xsun or the legacy SPARC graphics > drivers in IPS format, so once this changeover is done, SPARC > platforms will only have Xorg, and only have the graphics drivers for > astfb (AST2000, 2100), efb (XVR-50, 100, 300), and kfb (XVR-2500).
Hi, please do not stop providing a single /dev/fb kernel module. You know the parts of the reason ... (yes, not even the hopeless wildcats ...) In your own interest ... (that of your future customers ...) Otherwise you need to explicitly redirect all your legacy PGX8, PGX24, PGX32, PGX64, Elite3D, Creator, Creator3D customers to me (and *may*be Expert3D, Expert3Dlite, XVR-500 and XVR-600 in the uncertain future, this statement is new). If you want that, ok ... As I said, silently I still continued to work on fixing SPARC-libpciaccess. Now I got external sponsorship and excellent technical expertise and with joint forces we managed to make significant (interim-) progress. But I won´t respond to questions at this time, because ¨almost done¨ means exactly that, not more. %martin bochnig _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
