On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Alan Coopersmith > <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: >> Ken Mandelberg wrote: >>> Martin Bochnig wrote, On 10/29/2008 12:09 PM: >>>> a few months ago? >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/;jsessionid=624904B2F09B1FFA84A7490487C4A194 >>>> XVR100 works since April 2007. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Ken Mandelberg<km at mathcs.emory.edu> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Just looking for an update, the last posting was a few months ago. >>>>> >>>>> Any hints when we will see a Sparc/SB1500/XVR100 Xorg? >>>>> -- >>>>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> xwin-discuss mailing list >>>>> xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>>> >>> >>> I'm running build 101. Do I need the test binaries from that URL, or is >>> it already integrated? >>> >>> If it is in 101, what do I need to do to switch from Xsun to Xorg? >>> >>> If its not in 101, when will it be integrated? >> >> Martin's drivers are not integrated into SXCE, and I have not heard of >> any definite plans to integrate them. The SPARC graphics team is >> providing their own Xorg drivers for XVR-2500 (already in SXCE), and >> XVR-50/100/300 (planned for the OpenSolaris 2009 sparc release, but >> not SXCE - see their ARC case for details). Tim Cramer is polling >> the community on support for older SPARC devices in the OpenSolaris >> SPARC distro release and knows that Martin's drivers are an option >> for that, should Sun decide to support some of the older SPARC devices. >> If not, Glynn & I have talked about making them available as >> supported-by-community-but-not-Sun drivers in the OpenSolaris repo, >> but no work has been done on that yet (since there is no SPARC repo >> yet, and we should be on Xorg 1.5 first). >> >> -- >> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com >> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering >> >> > > i do understand, that sun didn't want to spend money by paying > developers for porting xorg drivers to sparc-solaris. > what i do N O T understand, however, is that they may decide not to > use them, even though that they are available for free now, because I > did the work for free, since 2006. > this has never been on the table. > > if sun is serious about this, then it will be serious ... >
Your company is playing with the lives of the few external community members at will, randomly (I'm not the only example). If you kept me standing in the kitchen (for at least the time since the fox-gate opened in summer 2007) and now you say that you don't have any precise plans to eat the dishes, I can ensure you that the entire UNIX community will never forget about this. Maybe even the markets will hear about that. This reminds me that you have your FQ0109 earnings release today. I wonder how you can tell and write things like above without feeling really damn bad in your stomach.
