Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Allow me, yourself, and anyone else this question: How useful is the
> SPARC-Xorg server that you are currently shipping as part of Solaris 10 and
> Nevada?
On Solaris 10? Not very useful right now. On Nevada, it is
now useful to users of XVR-2500 cards, and will become useful
to more users when the XVR-100 & XVR-300 drivers ship.
> And even with libpciaccess for the future, when 1.5 and all your patches will
> ship one day: Apparently you didn't have enough people on the payroll to
> support legacy UPA based FFB1/FFB1+/FFB2/FFB2+ Ceator and Elite3D cards.
No, it is not a lack of people stopping that work, or we'd have
posted job openings to hire more people to do it. It is simply a
business decision that the resources Sun has are better spent on
other projects than providing support in our next generation
operating system for 5-15 year old graphics cards that most paying
customers have stopped using (and those who haven't yet probably
will by the time Solaris 10 hits the end of its support life in
another 7-8 years). At the end of the day, Sun's goal is to make
a profit, and engineers paid by Sun are assigned to work on things
that Sun management believes will be more profitable in the long
run than others.
> But of course, it is all totally worthless what I have done.
I'm sorry if you believe that, but I never said that and never
meant anything like that. I simply wanted to make sure, given
your past history in this community, that you understood up front
that while contributions to this effort are accepted and
appreciated, they are not required, expected, demanded, or
likely to be reimbursed by Sun.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
