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List:       opensolaris-rfe
Subject:    Re: [osol-rfe] [xwin-discuss] Addt VIA chrome9 X11 driver
From:       Stuart Kreitman <Stuart.Kreitman () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2008-06-26 17:20:34
Message-ID: 4863CFE2.6060203 () sun ! com
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Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage Architect, Office of the Chief 
Technologist, Sun MicroSystems wrote:
>
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> peter brouwer wrote:
>>   
>>> Are there plans to port the via code to solaris?
>>> See for source code
>>> http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action
>>>     
>>
>> All I see there is Linux kernel fbdev sources - not X11 sources.
>>   
> Yep, sorry used the wrong url
>> We plan to switch our X.Org driver from the current xf86-video-via
>> to xf86-video-openchrome in the future, but we have no plans to ship
>> any via driver that's not produced in cooperation with the X.Org
>> community.
>>
>> VIA hardware is too rare and little used for Sun to have much interest
>> in assigning people to port drivers ourselves - if someone else wanted
>> to do so and integrate it, I don't see why we'd refuse.   We're just
>> concentrating our X driver efforts on the 3 vendors that cover 98% of
>> the x86 graphics market - nvidia, ati, and intel.
>>   
> I do not agree here. Those small (via) boards are very popular for 
> appliance use.
> The one that is of interest to Sun is a filer/media server appliance.
> Openstorage NAS/CIFS/NFS server in a shoebox, low energy (green, also 
> fits Sun green mantra).
> The board I use has 4 sata ports, build in audio and graphics and uses 
> about 15W.
> Stick 4 250/500G drives in there with ZFS and you have a very powerful 
> file server. This is the market nexenta is aiming at.
>
> So I do think it is important to opensolaris!

Sounds like a machine that's very attractive for reasons unrelated to 
its graphics performance.  Run it with the vga driver.


Stuart
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