Hi Martin, You maybe surprised to know I have been following your work but have not yet had the skill set to help you out so I kept my mouth shut not to get in your way. Thus, I think you have been doing excellent work. Its just been above a few peoples heads I would say ?! I'm rather interested in the idea of a OBP emulation layer for modern x86 cards that are around *if* this is even possible. I am also very interested in doing my own SPARC/x86 distro with KDE4.X and Fluxbox as a option. After I got KDE4 packaged and going over at Blastwave, maybe we can join force on this one?
Best Regards, Edward O'Callaghan. 2008/8/26 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> p.s. Moinak, Alan: Is Xorg binary compatible to /usr/openwin/lib ? Or only >> on x86, but not yet on SPARC? Or 90% of libs yes, 10% no? > > All the libraries we now deliver in /usr/X11/lib and left symlinks in > /usr/openwin/lib to are believed to be fully binary compatible. (We > don't have complete test suites for all of them, but based on the code, > we think it's reasonably safe to call them compatible.) This is part > of why it's taken us so long to move the Nevada implementations over to > the current X.Org upstreams as we check this, and where necessary apply > patches to our builds. > > Off the top of my head, the one big library we know is still incompatible > between what's delivered in /usr/openwin/lib and what you get from > building the FOX gate is libXaw. (This is greatly improved from when the > FOX gate started last year, and critical libraries like libX11 & libXext > were not binary compatible.) > > As far as binary compatibility goes, there should be no difference > between SPARC & x86. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/
