John Martin wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> The simplest solution I can think of is to create a new IPS package >> NVDAgraphics-legacy that imports the legacy version of the packages, >> so that upgrades to new Nevada builds won't helpfully "upgrade" them >> to a new version that won't work with their card. Can these be marked >> as incompatible with NVDAgraphics so that both aren't installed at once? >> (They'll install files with the same paths as each other.) >> >> > There is another legacy branch coming relatively soon, so the above plan > would > need to handle two legacy drivers. The current legacy driver (96.43.05) > supports > G2x GPUs and below. The 173.14.05 driver which was released last week > will be the next legacy driver branch for G3x GPUs when the 177.xx > driver is released (current sliding schedule is late August). > > Do we believe it is worth the work to make IPS versions of the > legacy driver branches for 1x/2x and 3x GPUs, given the relatively > small attach rate of Solaris to Sun branded systems which used these > GPUs?
The problem is that these GPU's are in use on *non* sun hardware which people are trying to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
