OBP *is* open src since 2007. And there have always been guides and books describing how to write fcode drivers. One I know costs 60$ and includes many sample fcode / forth sample drivers, including basic graphics.
if you are that expert who will write us all this fancy stuff, then you can already start. -- %mab On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Jensen Lee <hayd...@haydude.org> wrote: >> Sun's been selling ATI cards for SPARC workstations >> for a while, >> the XVR-100 (PCI) and XVR-300 (PCI-E) - both of which >> are supported >> under OpenSolaris Xorg - sales are not exciting in >> the least. > > Is this perhaps because they are 2D and too expensive for what they offer? > >> Developing new models would cost millions, especially >> if it meant >> having nvidia port their driver to a new platform and >> develop >> OBP-compatible firmware for their hardware. > > It cannot be that hard or expensive to develop an OPB firmware for an > existing chipset, again, give us the OBP source code and will do it for you > guys, free. > > >> > It would also let Sun see that there is still a >> large SPARC workstation market out there that they >> have been ignoring. > > What Sun fail to understand here is that it does not make sense to sell SPARC > servers without supporting workstations. Where do they think the application > development do take place? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
