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List:       opensolaris-xwin-discuss
Subject:    Re: [xwin-discuss] AMD/ATI opens chips specs,
From:       "Richard L. Hamilton" <rlhamil () smart ! net>
Date:       2008-06-30 15:52:45
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> Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> > At a minimum, it would be great to have the FOX
> drivers for SPARC
> > available in binary for the older boxen, even if in
> a status of "compiles, but
> > testing and maintenance is a community issue".  I
> think I'll try building FOX
> > for my SB2K (for the FFB2+ aka Creator 3D series
> 3).
> 
> The only SPARC driver in the FOX gate is wsfb, which
> has been provided in
> binary form in SXCE since build fifty-something.
>    No other drivers ever
> integrated, since Martin left OpenSolaris before
>  finishing that work and no one else ever picked it up.

I found that out the hard way. :-(   Although after jumping
through all the hoops, it looks like fox-gate built, probably ok,
on SPARC snv_90.  Absent his drivers, that doesn't do much for me
though, except just having gone through the exercise.

I think I'll try playing with his binaries, after making a bare tarball
out of the packages, so I can put them somewhere else and then
loopback mount them, so as not to mess up either my package database
or the files it describes (i.e. so my system will still be upgradeable).

I wish I could pick up his work and do something more substantial with it.
But I doubt that I have the time, or attention span, to learn enough of how
it all fits together to accomplish that.  It's a heck of a waste not to have
those drivers, though.
 
 
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