Martin Bochnig wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Alan Coopersmith > <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > >> Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >>> ***LOL***: >>> >> And here I thought the part you'd appreciate most was going to be >> that no one downloaded the builds I announced either >> > > No, why should I? > The lack of interest on the ( only SPARC?) side of this community's > user base is frustrating. > To you, to me, to anybody who works or has worked on it and then > nobody even downloaded it :-( > > I need space in my living room. > I already took all SPARC testing boxes (all!!!) and put them into the > basement (w/o any wiring). > Except a wonder happens and at least 23 people tell me that they are > interested in seeing the merge of the legacy SPARC drivers (#0) into > Xorg 1.5.x++ (or if I finally get a symbolic unpaid job at Sun, which > always had been my "dream"), I list them on ebay, or directly throw > them away (to save time and work). > They are pretty much worthless in contrast to what I once had paid for them. > > (#0) > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/ > > Martin Bochnig > > > I for one would be very interested, but unfortunately, I use a Blade 2500 with the XVR1200 Graphics card. To add fuel to the fire, I just recently found out Parametric Technologies (manufacturer of MCAD software Pro-Engineer) does not support the Sparc Workstation for WF5 (they have released a pre version as of now). They are only supporting the X64 Solaris (thank god, there is a Unix flavor still available). The X64 version has many feature missing that were available on the Sparc Platform. So reluctantly, it appears that X64 may be in my future.
Cannot Sun add to their OBP a layer to use standard graphics cards? Unless Sun does that, it appears the Sparc Workstation me become extinct.
