On 05/07/10 17:08, Martin Bochnig wrote:

Sorry for the delay.

It's been a few weeks now - did I miss anything? Should I go
invest in some XVR100s whilst they are still available :-) ?

This is my understanding of the issues

o The package of proprietary drivers for the legacy frame buffer
   hardware will install on Open Solaris, but they won't work
   because the PCI scanning software isn't compatible.

o Xorg won't work with the legacy drivers.

o XSun will work with the legacy drivers, but it needs to be
   Open Sourced or installed from old SVR4 packages. Open
   Sourcing it can't even begin until this project starts, and
   even when it is, it will be low priority and hence could take
   a long time. Once available, it will take considerable effort
   to get it to build in the Open Solaris environment.

o In theory but probably not in practise, XSun could track
   Xorg in features but realistically it won't happen, for
  example, RandR.

o There may be some features in XSun that might be useful
   in Xorg and that's the main reason for Sun/Oracle's interest.

Please correct me if my understanding is wrong or if I've
missed a critical issue.

Thanks -- Frank



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