Andrew Pattison wrote: >If the drivers in marTux could somehow be integrated into Nevada then this >would probably be the quickest way of getting these older graphics cards >supported on SXCR, >
What do you mean by getteing them "supported" ? That single Xorg extension you had been talking about? And why would that be exclusively connected to the older gfx cards/chipsets? Xsun's performance is not too bad otherwise. Use a real workstation and a real frame buffer (i.e Blade [1|2]000 / XVR 1200, or just XVR-500). > since much of the work has (presumably) already been done in terms of the > actual drivers themselves. > > Admittedly mostly not my coding work. It all dates back to 2001 and has been implemented mostly by three XFree86 developers (Marc_la_France Jakub_Jelinek and a third name, plus RH's David Miller). It is just taht nobody took real care of it. So it had been *believed* to be on no-go all the time, until I wondered when carefully going through a number of Xorg source files. The little difficulty was only how to get the existing code working on/for as many as possible workstation models and a few servers (each with different FCode interaction). >I believe Masayuki Murayama's network drivers are in the process of being >integrated into Nevada. > +1 I totally agree and could do the rather boring pkg creation work, *IF* certain people started responding to my messages again. >Perhaps, if the authors were agreeable, the same could happen to the SPARC >Xorg drivers in marTux? > Those are rather "the SPARC Xorg drivers in Xorg". Only a few small patches have been necessary (as well as a lot of testing and a bit debugging). >Is it legal to mix GPLed code (which presumably the Xorg x86 drivers arethe >SPARC drivers being based on these) with CDDL code in this way? > > I don't know. I believe "mixing" is not allowed. But shipping GPL licensed programs as part of Solaris seems to be possible, see all the GNU tools it is now shipping with, fortunately :-) Friendly, Martin -- "YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE, YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE, BECAUSE OF WHAT HAS GONE INTO YOUR MIND." Zig Ziglar >Cheers > >Andrew. > > >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >xwin-discuss mailing list >xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > > >
