Martin Bochnig wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> - Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb
>> (which
>> only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) and astfb (AST2100 service
>> processors for servers) until matching SPARC graphics driver packages are
>> built and installed, since this release breaks API/ABI. OpenGL on SPARC
>> will also not work unless you get updated matching Xorg OpenGL modules from
>> the SPARC graphics team due to the ABI break. You should still be able to
>> test on SPARC the other Xservers (Xephyr, Xvnc, Xvfb), and associated
>> programs (like scanpci).
>
> Shouldn't Xorg's "-ignoreABI" option work around this?
> The interested user could make this option permanent via adding it by
> means of "svccfg -s x11-server".
-ignoreABI would allow the modules to load, but potentially crash if/when they
used one of the incompatibly changed function calls. Since I've not seen the
sources to the drivers in question, and haven't checked their symbol lists with
nm, I don't know if any of the drivers make such calls.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
