?????? ?????? (Martin Bochnig) wrote:
> Hi Alan, this is good news indeed, congrats!
> But as often, a small ^but^:
>
>
>> Unlike ON and the previous X teamware gate, this gate is entirely open
>> source.
>> There is no closed component - the entire repository is published to
>> opensolaris.org. (One of the first pushes was removing the last remnants of
>> Xsun & the associated encumbered font packages from the hg repository.)
>
> While this is best of it all, maybe you should at least mention, that
> this gate does not contain any SPARC graphics ddx modules beyond ast,
> and that no single /dev/fb kernel module (sure, would apply to OS/Net)
> is available as src in any form, under any license. Not even in the
> DDK, right?
While that's true, it's no different than the previous X gates. Even the
closed X gate had no SPARC graphics ddx in since cg6 was removed. All the
UPA, PCI & PCI-E kernel drivers & DDX modules live in the SPARC Graphics
gate, not the X gate. (People outside Sun couldn't see that, so I can
understand that you wouldn't have known that, and I didn't think of it
as being any different, which is why I hadn't mentioned it.)
> Are there chances, that the ast kernel module could be opened?
I don't know. (I've never actually seen the source myself, since
I don't work on the SPARC Graphics gate.)
> I donate 500$ cash into the project if you do this.
> Hopefully others would follow.
I don't know who you'd contribute that to.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
