Hi community, sorting out some stuff. Back very soon(#0.)
(#0). := ((OpenXsun aka exSun) && (Fox_gate libpciaccess based) Sorry for having been a bit out for some time. But there was no better way. Have all boxes. And all old stubborn ideas. (Unfortunately not as much time as I used to have in the old days.) bye %martin On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> Hmm...didn't FOX gate have Martin's ports of drivers for some >> of the legacy SPARC graphics hardware? Having a fair bit of same >> still in use, those are still a matter of concern for me. > > Yes, but those aren't in sync with current X servers, and he hasn't > touched them in the FOX gate since March 2009 - in fact, we're coming > up on the one year anniversary of the last commit by anyone to the > fox-gate hg repo - August 17, 2009. If Martin's still working on them, > he's been doing it somewhere else. > >> It'd be great to see them separable from the basic X server, if Oracle >> doesn't wish to maintain them, so that they could be an addition from >> a separate repository, rather than requiring an entire alternative X server. > > That requires someone to actively maintain them, since the Xorg driver API/ABI > changes between upstream releases. > >> Either or both of those are presumably for the community to deal with; >> but it would sure help if coexistence with (rather than replacement of) >> "standard" software were possible. > > I am happy to add new source repositories and committers to the FOX project > if people want to do work there, but right now, no one is. (Other than the > project gates we're using to stage the upgrades to new Xorg versions before > they're ready to integrate to the main Nevada gate, like the Xorg-1.9-merge > gate I recently made there - but only Niveditha & I have been working on > those.) > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/xwin-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/options/xwin-discuss > _______________________________________________ xwin-discuss mailing list [email protected] List info: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/xwin-discuss Unsubscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/options/xwin-discuss
