On 03/15/11 01:57 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> - wsfb driver for SPARC frame buffers:
>> - This driver has been removed. Oracle development builds have provided
>> native Xorg drivers for all devices with kernel fb drivers since the
>> end of SXCE, so there are no devices for which this is useful in those
>> builds.
>>
>> Those building their own distro will have to make their own decision
>> on whether to continue shipping or not - this driver was intended as
>> a temporary bootstrap to allow testing Xorg on sparc before native
>> drivers could be provided (since they required a working Xorg to
>> test against), and only worked at all with a limited set of devices
>> such as m64, but not with many of the 3Dlabs cards, and worked
>> poorly on the devices it could drive.
>
> Just for the record:
>
> For this purpose there were better alternatives.
When I added wsfb, I did not do an in-depth investigation of all the
alternatives. I had one that worked for my purposes with only a day
or two's worth of work, and that was sufficient for the bootstrapping
needs I had, so that I could concentrate on the bits I needed to (like
testing the core server, keyboard & mouse drivers) while others worked
on real SPARC graphics drivers (which needed a working server, keyboard
and mouse drivers so they could test their bits). As I said, it was
never intended to be a permanent solution and probably should have gone
away a while ago.
>> but not with many of the 3Dlabs cards
>
> This suggests, that it had in fact worked with at least one model.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that. I don't know of any it worked
with, but didn't test on all models, and while I know that there were
some it couldn't possibly work with, I don't know if that applied to
all - it may have.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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