Hi Jensen,
A few things:
1. There was some work I did a few years ago in that we didn't need
"SPARC-specific" video cards - you could use commercially available video cards
that were compatible to Xorg and SPARC motherboards.
2. I submitted a bunch of RFEs to update Sun OpenGL to OpenGL 1.5-2.1
compliance. Sun has made a lot of updates to the Sun OpenGL API implementation
so existing drivers have a nice OpenGL API. Maybe you'll
see Sun OpenGL 3.2 one day - wishful thinking there.
3. As for those existing XVR drivers, I think you basically want XVR driver
support and maintainance - right?
As for Sun, I don't expect them to handle this role forever. It is almost like
saying, we want Sun to provide recommended patch clusters for Solaris 2.5.1
since we still use it. Sometimes you'd hope a small tech company
would pick up the slack and provide this service. But, like your driver
support sometimes this does not happen - but if it does then you need people
dedicated and having the financial resources to provide you that service. Or,
make donations to them to inspire them to keep doing it.
Sun can't do it all (maybe?)... so that is why community is important.
Independent Solaris developers can step in and provide help where they can.
Since Martin Bochnig has been working on legacy SPARC video drivers for awhile,
you might want to add him as your primary community contact (or whatever team
is formed from this result).
I also can help you with old XVR cards up to the XVR-2500. I've used most of
these graphic cards or maintained them...
Ken Mays
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