Martin Bochnig wrote:
> (although it vanishes my hopes, maybe I could earn a few Cents from my
> Xorg ddx work of the recent years since 2006).
> Net result: Probably I also publish the Xorg ddx stuff and libpciaccess.
> But as I said before, I still have one major remaining problem with the Xorg
> ws.
What you do there is still up to you, but to be clear, I don't expect Xsun
to be a viable long term solution, for many of the same reasons Sun chose
years ago to move to Xorg, and for additional reasons due to the release model.
Note especially that I have permission to release the source to exactly one
and only one Xsun driver right now - the cg6 that was already released from an
older source base as the Xsun reference driver source in the old DDK. All
other drivers remain closed source binaries - this means you won't be able to
fix bugs in those drivers or add features that require driver or ABI changes.
Additionally, since Xsun is no longer in the base OS, the QA groups no longer
test against it, and the higher level desktop software is increasingly depending
on Xorg features not found in Xsun, like the Render and RandR extensions.
(Well, Xsun has an old version of Render in the core code, but most Xsun drivers
don't provide the required pixmap depths to support it, so it's disabled.)
I see this as a stopgap for now for those who just need a basic display on old
hardware, and don't mind these limitations - whether someone picks it up and
develops something more is up to people like you and the other community
members.
One of my other motivations in doing this is that it also means that there
will be a lot more people who can look at the Xsun sources to see if there's
bug fixes or enhancements to port to Xorg (like the Sun Shared Memory Transport
I've had way down on the todo list for years).
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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