X11R7 font server and utilities [LSARC/2008/009 FastTrack timeout 01/14/2008]

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > In case it wasn't obvious from the header, I'm sponsoring this > fasttrack for myself, and have set the timeout to next Monday, > January 14, 2008. I've not seen any comments, so this case is now closed approved. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith

3-Dimensional driver for ATI Radeon graphics cards [PSARC/2007/685 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2008]

2008-01-14 Thread Eric Sultan
I don't think there are current plans to offer this in SPARC. If we were to do so, we'd first have to extend the DRI/DRM interfaces to SPARC, which in turn would have a dependency upon the _sigoff/_sigon interfaces extended as Contract Private the x86 desktop consolidation. It would make sense

3-Dimensional driver for ATI Radeon graphics cards [PSARC/2007/685 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2008]

2008-01-14 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Variants of the ATI Radeon (Radeon 7000, I believe) are used in SPARC systems. Is there any plan to offer this functionality on SPARC hardware? -- Garrett Eric Sultan wrote: > I'm sponsoring this fast-track for Minskey Guo, the timer to expire on > 01/21/2008. > > This project delivers a So

3-Dimensional driver for ATI Radeon graphics cards [PSARC/2007/685 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2008]

2008-01-14 Thread Eric Sultan
I'm sponsoring this fast-track for Minskey Guo, the timer to expire on 01/21/2008. This project delivers a Solaris x86/amd64 port of the open-sourced ATI Radeon 3D driver, using the DRI interfaces provided by PSARC 2004/801. The proposed binding is patch. The one-pager is included below. -- E

GNOME Power Management Support [PSARC/2008/021 FastTrack timeout 01/23/2008]

2008-01-14 Thread David Chieu
I am sponsoring this FastTrack for Phi Tran. Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: GNOME Power Management Support 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:

[driver-discuss] MFI vs. Megasas

2008-01-14 Thread James C. McPherson
Richard Lowe wrote: > > But surely over in OpenSolaris land we have raidctl, which while > currently specific to mpt-driven cards (I think), seems clearly > intended to be generic. > > I assume that the mega_sas actually intend to integrate a raidctl plugin, > rather than a separate CLI? Best no

PSARC/2008/018 Integrate OpenUSB into Solaris

2008-01-14 Thread Lei Chen
Lei Chen wrote: > David L. Markowitz wrote: >> What plans are there, if any, to support this on Sun Ray, like libusb >> currently does? > SunRay may have resource limit at present. I think SunRay folks can > probably help answer this question. Sorry, I may have misunderstood your question. I check

The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joseph Kowalski wrote: > It appears that the OBG/Constitution changed the rules started by Sun and > later adopted by the CAB. Is this a fair statement? The adoption of the Constitution defined a new way to define the rules, and no one has followed through to define rules and processes in the new

[arc-discuss] The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Bochnig
/* The ML system doesn't properly work once again. I'm subscribed to arc-discuss, but my second message hangs somewhere. This has happened frequently on opensolaris.org's lists. And I repeatedly have pointed it out long before. If it is not possible to put mb1x at gmx.com onto a "whitelist", t

OpenSolaris ARC Agenda for Jan 16, 2008 - Late Meeting starts at 4:15pm PT

2008-01-14 Thread Aarti Pai
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PSARC/2008/018 Integrate OpenUSB into Solaris

2008-01-14 Thread Lei Chen
David L. Markowitz wrote: > What plans are there, if any, to support this on Sun Ray, like libusb > currently does? SunRay may have resource limit at present. I think SunRay folks can probably help answer this question. Thanks, Lei Chen > > Artem Kachitchkine wrote: >> I am sponsoring this fast

The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

2008-01-14 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Joerg Schilling wrote: > We recently had examples where a single project did introduce incompatible > extensions that caused harm to the whole. > Please list these. - jek3

The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

2008-01-14 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > Derailing is just switching the points (or pointing the switches) to the > longer variant of the development process. > :-) Nice analogy and double entandre. (How ever you spell it!) - jek3

The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

2008-01-14 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > >> I've been known to misread or misunderstand statements before. So, let me >> ask directly... >> >> Roy, John,... Do you believe that any community delivering code is >> required >> to interact with the ARC, and to adhere to the de

The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

2008-01-14 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > We've gone through this a hundred times already. The current ARC > process at Sun is not mandated in any way *other* than by choice > of the consolidation gatekeepers. Nothing has changed in that regard. > In fact, if anything, we have strengthened the ARC by removing the

[Fwd: Re: Integrate mfi (OpenSolaris MegaRaid SAS) driver [PSARC/2008/011 FastTrack timeout 01/16/2008]]

2008-01-14 Thread James C. McPherson
Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: ... >> Hanging around for months waiting, being continually "reassured" >> in non-public conversations that allegedly better code is going >> to get integrated is *NOT* a useful way of encouraging other >> driver authors to bother

MFI vs. Megasas

2008-01-14 Thread Javen Wu
Rich, You are right. Architecturally, raidctl(1M) is the the solaris generic RAID configuration tool. And I believe MegaCLI will not be integrated into Solaris and we need raidctl plugin finally. But before the raidctl plugin for Megasas get ready, I think MAYBE megasas will follow aac(9D) and

[ogb-discuss] MFI vs. Megasas

2008-01-14 Thread Javen Wu
Sorry to spread the discussion thread to OGB. I post email there just because I found the initial discussion about MFI includes the OGB mail aliases and I don't expect OGB take any action accroding my email at all. Yes, our team should have post some road map in opensolaris somewhere. I tried my b