-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:10:11 +0200 > Von: "Martin Bochnig" <mb1x at gmx.com> > An: "Martin Bochnig" <mb1x at gmx.com>, 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: 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. Two months, yes: And in case somebody doubts this, then he can ask himself the following question: It took you two years, and you did not even find out that this problems exists, not to speak of finding the workaround. The same can be said for www.x.org (and in this case even www.xfree86.org). But this entire community is thankless (with a very small selection of exceptions). This community can chat about SPARC-Xorg for weeks and weeks and weeks. If somebody comes then and brings in some actual code changes, you don't hear a quiet noise anymore. No "welcome", no "hello", no nothing. I consider this very unfortunate. > There you have it. > ENJOY.
