2010/2/18 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>: > ?????? ?????? (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 >
Well, I knew it. You told me about this numerous times over the years. However, the reason why I asked was, because you have so much stressed its openness. But due to the artificial distinction X11 gate <--versus--> the SPARC-gfx gate, it triggers unmet expectations to the readers. I have asked. This was my duty. If it doesnt help, then I cannot change it. -- Martin Bochnig
