I am sponsoring this case for myself, with a timeout set for one week
from today, Wednesday, August 6, 2008.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI
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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
EOF of cg6 graphics support
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Alan Coopersmith
1.3 Date of This Document:
30 July, 2008
4. Technical Description
This case announces the EOF of, and removes, the support for the cg6
graphics card in Solaris. The cg6 driver & Xsun DDX module supported
the Sbus graphics cards sold under the names GX, GXplus, TurboGX, and
TurboGXplus.
According to Sun's FRU EOL database, the last of these cards sold had
its last ship date in 1999, and its End of Service Life for the hardware
in 2004. Since this case only removes support from an upcoming minor
or greater release of Solaris, and Solaris 10 end of support is not likely
to happen until 2014 or later, this will give purchasers of this card at
least 15 years of software support.
For users who still want to use their cards on future releases, the
cg6 kernel driver source has been released as part of OpenSolaris, the
cg6 Xsun driver source was released in the past as the reference
device in the Xsun DDK, and an open source driver for the Xorg server
is available from X.Org.
This case delivers in two phases:
1) In a patch release, announces the obsolesence of and future removal plans
for, cg6 support.
2) In a minor release, removes the following:
From the ON consolidation:
The entire SUNWcg6u package:
/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/cgsix
The entire SUNWcg6h package:
/usr/include/sys/cg6reg.h
/usr/include/sys/cg6var.h
From the SUNWhea package:
/usr/include/sys/cg6fbc.h
/usr/include/sys/cg6tec.h
/usr/include/sys/cg6thc.h
From the X consolidation:
From the SUNWxsun-server package:
/usr/openwin/server/modules/ddxSUNWcg6.so.1
From the Docs consolidation:
From the SUNWman package:
/usr/share/man/man7d/cgsix.7d
(Given the cross-consolidation nature of this removal, these may be
removed in separate builds of each consolidation.)
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
X & ON
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
