On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com> wrote: > On 11/ 5/09 12:11 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> So what now again? Where are you all?? >> Alan offered us THE EXITING solution, I suggested he should do it and >> we all found a FullyOpenXsun "project", and exactly now when it really >> matters, nobody is here anymore? > > We're here! But I'm a bit confused between your BSD ports and > using xorg vs. reviving Xsun. It sounds like you are in favor of the > latter. But: > > On 11/ 2/09 01:30 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> However, a lot of other parts of the OS (gnome, etc.) are going to start >> assuming there are only Xorg based X servers on the system and stop >> supporting Xsun servers - at least for local use. ? Clearly anything that >> interacts with a remote X display has to support Xsun for roughly another >> decade or so, until Solaris 10 is EOL, but things that only deal with the >> console X server may not keep the support going for it. > > Given there's only a relatively small number of SPARC graphics users (I > wonder how many there really are), ?there probably aren't resources to > support parallel efforts, but you both are in a better position to judge the > relative merits of the approaches. With sxce currently scheduled to end > in December, there isn't much time. > > So what would you like us to do? I'm willing to put some time in if it > would help... > > Cheers -- Frank >
Hi Frank, I am in favor of doing both! But where there is no open-src BSD or Linux driver, only Xsun can help. (wildcat series and XVR-1000 and a few others). My and our goal is - and should probably be - to get Xorg running where *somehow* possible, really trying hard. And to maintain Xsun for the other cases, where we will never ever have Xorg support. Cheers, %martin
