I've complained about the same issues before. I
understand the need to move onto Xorg and drop Xsun.
At the same time, I understand that Sun really isn't
in the SPARC workstation business anymore and is
hoping that people will buy a Intel PC from them for
running Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris on
Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
Could Xorg be built to handle a particular list of loadable (separate)
community-supported
drivers, so that those could be added without replacing Xorg itself? That
wouldn't be perfect,
but it would be a lot better than nothing.
Xorg has no problem loading new
Xorg has no problem loading new drivers at runtime, without
recompiling. When using PCI vendor id to autoselect a driver,
you'll need an xorg.conf to tell Xorg which driver to load when
it's not in the builtin list. For SPARC, where /dev/fb mapping
is mainly used for selecting a fb driver,
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote:
Replacing the server would currently be necessary for 2 basic reasons:
I forgot the only 2 basic reasons.
Of course the goal should be to get the changes stable and move them
upstream, so that it won't longer be necessary,
