Subject: Re: xsrc/xfree works on netbsd/sparc
To: Erik E. Fair <roskens@elfin.net>
From: Kurt J. Lidl <lidl@pix.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/07/2001 20:33:38
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0700, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> Unfortunately, the totality of the description in the Xfree86 4.1.0 
> man page for the cgfourteen is:
> 
> 	suncg14 is an XFree86 driver for Sun CG14 video cards.
> 	THIS MAN PAGE NEEDS TO BE FILLED IN.

Don't worry -- it's not going to work on NetBSD, at least until someone
hacks it a bit.

The Linux guys at Redhat wrote a Sbus layer for Linux, similar to the
PCI layer that has been implemented for *BSD, Linux and Solaris.

If one were to port the Sbus bus layer in the Xfree86 tree, then they
might be able to use this driver in the new and improved XF86 way
of doing things.  Until such time, it will not work.

-Kurt