At 08:45 AM 8/20/2000 -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:

>On 18-Aug-00 matthew green wrote:
> > that might be so, but we gotta do it sometime ... it doesn't matter,
> > the alpha port has been needing it for N years, and only now is it
> > finally starting to be possible :)
>
>Note also that having xfree86 on sparc might put us closer to having the
>xfree86 p9100 driver available for the tadpoles..

Not susbstanially.  The reason is that XF86 really wants VGA and the p9100
in the sparcbook is *never* in VGA mode.  It would be better to write a
local p9100 driver in the new wscons stuff that Roland is working.
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