Ken Mays wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> I was thinking about what Alan said and I'd think
> Xorg 7.2 is good enough for testing until Xorg 7.4
> comes out. Skip Xorg 7.3 for now - unless just for
> academic (or Sun-internal) reasons.


I have little influence on what Sun's X11 group does.
And for FOX I (for my part) will stick with the version they decided to - and 
prepared to - use.
FOX is based on the work of many.
 
> My question was first thinking of your comments and
> Moinak's announcement back around April 2007 on a
> full Xorg 7.2 build. 


> We have a bundle of Sun SPARC
> video drivers for XSun as well in the download area.
> Alan's blog covers this topic on support between XSun
> and Xorg so I'll end that note. 

Phantastic? And what do they have to do with Xorg (except for some of the 
/dev/fb drivers)? Do you get Xsun-ddx modules to drive Xorg? That's the 
important issue.
 
> Solaris Ready 'certification' of Sun Graphic
> components and video device drivers? - see:
> http://www.sun.com/solarisready

I'm well aware of the "SolarisReady" logo (which had been important to me when 
I was a SPARC-novice). But I think it is the wrong program for this purpose. 
Wouldn't you expect a Solaris_SPARC Sun frame buffer to be compatible with 
exactly that?
Other (internal) code review programs are more appropriate.
And they are almost certainly already on their way since June.
 
> Oh, and my comments on Sun OpenGL and OpenGL 2.1
> compliance.... I'll leave that one for next year's
> debate!!
> 
> ~K

It's not about "1.5" versus "2.1".
"Sun-OpenGL" XOR "Mesa", that was my objection. "OpenGL" is an open 
specification {0}. There are different vendor's implementations of it. 
"Sun-OpenGL" and "Mesa" are two distinct of those. And I find it a bad idea to 
re-brand a current Sun-compiled "Mesa" to "Sun-OpenGL", just because someone 
here hits the Start button.

{0} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL

Martin
 
 
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