Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > The X11 group does not have the people and time to do that unless we drop > other projects we're working on. Would the community rather see > that than > having us keep Xorg up to date with the latest x86 drivers? Than > getting > suspend-and-resume working on x86? Sadly, we have limits on our > resources, > and the people who could decide to give us more aren't out here in the > forums > listening to your wish list. > >> Isn't it much more expensive for SUNW (from the commercial standpoint) >> to continue maintaining Xsun on sparc? > > > It is for the X11 group, which is why we're pushing for Xorg. For the > SPARC graphics group, who will have to maintain the drivers either way, > it will be more expensive to port than not to. Unfortunately, we're > under > very different parts of the company, so it's hard to step back and get > someone > to take a Sun-wide point of view about what's best for everyone.
Okay, I could not imagine, how complex and difficult SUNW's internal structure is. Especially didn't I understand, that X11_group != SPARCgfx_group. I thought "you"/SUNW were simply uninterested. Again, if I could somehow help with whatever minor detail into the right direction, please let me know. Only two homework-uglies for tomorrow and Thursday and then will I have free until January 2nd. Regards, Martin Bochnig
