I'm still at a loss as to what the thinking is around Xorg support on SPARC. Supporting an 8-bit card in a world where many folks have upgraded, thanks to ebay, to something more modern with 24-bit graphics is a bit backward. I hope there are plans on supporting something better. Just seems that the focus on SPARC outside of the data center is lacking. Unfortunately, a good portion of the hardware sales for Sun are on SPARC.. not x64. You'd think that having a healthy SPARC workstation line-up would help increase those sales and justify the engineering. At this point, I wonder how much longer I'll be able to support my Sun Blade 2000 on SXCE with my Expert3d card. And since most of the work I do these days is on T-series servers.. and there isn't a niagara workstation.. looks like a bleek future with only noisy servers and no graphics.
Brilliant! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixconsole at yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> To: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> Cc: OpenSolaris X Window System List <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>; Open Solaris <opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:29:43 PM Subject: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - "Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from the SPARC graphics team, since this release breaks API/ABI." __/__ R ***LOL***: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > I've made updated test binary packages available for our upcoming integration > of Xorg 1.5 / Mesa 7.2 and all the associated driver updates for Nevada at: > > Internal/NFS: > /net/xserver.sfbay/export/space/alanc/Xorg-1.5/build-12-23-08/ > > External/http: > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/x/downloads/Xorg-1.5/build-12-23-08/ > > This will probably be the final test build made available before we integrate, > as we are targeting nv_107 in January. I've gotten very little feedback on ... > > - Disable PCI bus probe on SPARC Xorg startup to workaround extremely > long (multi-minute) pciaccess bus probe times. > > ... > - Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which > only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching > driver packages from the SPARC graphics team, 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, now added > on SPARC). ... > The 2008-12-23 build corresponds to the gate as of > changeset e06ca9ef67c0fe27cb5ecaf7cdade53c9e84c284 > which includes resyncing with the Nevada X consolidation gate > as of our nv_106 build. > > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
