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List:       opensolaris-xwin-discuss
Subject:    Re: [xwin-discuss] xwin-discuss Digest, Vol 31, Issue 7
From:       "S. Hakim Hamdani [ML]" <ml () eroteme ! org>
Date:       2007-12-11 6:32:34
Message-ID: 62464.121.127.32.254.1197354034.squirrel () webmail ! eroteme ! org
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Hello,

> From: Linda Fellingham <Linda.Fellingham@Sun.COM>
> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] What's new for drivers for Xorg on SPARC?
> Cc: xwin-discuss@opensolaris.org, Ben Taylor <sol11x86@comcast.net>
> Message-ID: <475D7E54.8030108@Sun.COM>
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> Unfortunately, we just don't have the resource within the SPARC graphics
> group to spend any time on all the work that is required to open source
> the drivers for obsolete SPARC hardware. We have barely enough resource
> to adequately support current Sun customers on the graphics cards that
> we OEM from AMD and Creative Labs. I have asked those companies if we
> could explore open source for these drivers (their confidential
> information was used in providing hardware acceleration), but neither is
> willing, at present, to do so.

Are the drivers from
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sparc_graphics/ rewrites or direct
forward ports of the original SPARC drivers? I am wondering, if no work is
being done on them, how well they perform, compared to the original Sol 9
/ Sol 10 drivers.

Thanks for any comments.

-- 
S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org

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