Subject: Re: Sparc graphics and other random ramblings...
To: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@turbolinux.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/17/2000 20:01:39
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Gerald Richter wrote:
>
> > I wasn't thinking of something for major production, just a niche
> > product for those of use that wanna play with more bits in the graphics
> > card... Kinda like that G4 slave core I wanted to build for my 4/110 if
> > I ever got that going...
>
> Let's ignore the cost of producing a one-off board for now. (You could
> probably buy a new U5 for less). You would need to get XFree86 working on
> SPARC. Do you really want to mess with that can of worms?
How much more of a can or worms is it going to be compared to
macppc and alpha, to pick two platforms which hopefully at
some point are going to get support for pci graphics cards...
David/absolute
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