The quality of my two previous messages had been poor ("pre-sleep-era"),
I apologize.
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>
>> The PGX32 / Techsource Raptor GFX 8P /dev/fb console driver is
>> missing from
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sparc_graphics/graphics-bins-20061016.sparc.tar
>>
>> .
>> Is there any legal issue associated to it?
>
>
> I have no idea, though I believe Sun just passes through the binaries
>
>> from TechSource.
>
I guess SPARCgraphics people are reading this:
--->> Could you please add 'gfxp' to the bundle of re-distributable
console drivers until mid to end of April, if possible?
Would be cool, thanks.
>
>> Next question, does anybody have test access to those few systems with
>> XVR-200
>> or XVR-300
>
>
> We have two of each of those in our lab, but they've never been
> plugged into
> anything. (We don't have a T2000 in our lab, so would have to put
> the XVR-200
> in another machine with PCI-X slots.)
I cannot say whether or not Xorg would currently find or "see" PCI-X
cards on sparc, bus scanning may be an early stopper.
I have no idea about which controllers/bridges those most recent boxes
employ (however, only a few lines of bus scanning code may need to be
altered and/or added).
But the graphics chipsets on XVR-200 and XVR-300 are appearently already
supported by Xorg's open source drivers on Linux x86 (not totally sure,
please verify yourself).
If that's the case, it should be trivial to get them going on sparc,
maybe a few endian fixes or such.
>
>> Next question, is support for older SBus cards (like Leo) not wanted?
>
>
> By who?
Your own customers?
Aren't there still quite a number of folks still using Ultra2's for real
(small) business?
> I'm sure some user out there wants support, just as some want
> support for OpenSolaris on their sun4c & sun4m machines, but I wouldn't
> spend a lot of time on it, since there's just not that many out there.
>
>> (The Ultra2 (A14) Workstation - still officially and fully supported
>> by Nevada - could well have one of the following frame buffers:
>
>
> I think the only Sbus cards ever officially supported in those were the
> cg6 series (TurboGX/TurboGXPlus).
So shall I include that (existing) driver
yes[ ]
no [ ] ?
>
>> Outlook: I currently have no idea in terms of how we could get the
>> following cards/chipsets to function inside Xorg (except - at least
>> potentially - by means of the wsfb X11<-->console driver hybrid) :
>>
>> XVR-2500
>> <http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Devices/Graphics/GRAPH_XVR2500.html>
>>
>
>
>
> This one is being ported by the SPARC graphics team - I've seen an early
> prototype driver of it running under Xorg 7.2 - it was drawing windows
> on the
> screen and moving the mouse cursor around, but had color issues that
> needed to
> be fixed.
Good to hear!
>>
>> Maybe you can put Xsun into "maintenance mode" on sparc as well, just
>> as on x86/x64.
>
>
> We already have. 8-)
BTW, I do not include wsfb, as it only brings problems during
auto-configuration (affecting the better native drivers) plus even
causes Signal 10 in certain scenarios, as early as during "Xorg -configure".
It is not needed anymore (for testing yes, but not in a binary
distribution).
