-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:59:27 +0200 > Von: "Martin Bochnig" <mb1x at gmx.com> > An: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> > CC: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > Betreff: Re: [xwin-discuss] fox-7-4-merge repository set up
> > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:54:28 -0700 > > Von: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> > > An: Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> > > CC: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > > Betreff: Re: [xwin-discuss] fox-7-4-merge repository set up > > > 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. > > > Maybe you didn't notice that it ALWAYS crashes during bus-scanning on > those systems which use the Schizo or Psycho pci bridges. > This may be unimportant for the XVR-2500 and later for the XVR-300. > But the XVR-100 is a PCI 2.2 card and it is supported in systems which > have Schizo or Psycho inside. There your current server will never start up. > Never. Because you have compiled sparcPci.c with optimization and without an > essential -D macro set. Not to mention that you mustn't use suncc to > compile the bus scanning objects, because this makes them even more > incompatible > to the older PCI bridges. LBNL: It must be built for sparcv8plusa (ultra2 32-bits). For sparcv9 sparcPci.c does only work on a limited number of (older) systems. To find out those few facts took two months of full-time work. There you have it. ENJOY.
