Subject: Re: Ultra10 and X11
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jason L. Wright <jason@thought.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/12/2002 21:47:45
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> writes:
> Heh, depends on your value of "anytime soon". We're close with the kernel
> part, but all the xsrc work has still to be done (which might not be much,
> since hopefully the OpenBSD guys now have fixed all the 64 bit big endian
> bugs in the XFree sources).
>
Hardly... 64BE bugs are still lurking, undoubtably. There are two hard
issues (ok, one time consuming easy problem, one hard problem):
1. (easier) getting the SbusBus stuff to work in XFree (this buys
you accelerated X... doesn't make a big difference for
cgsix, but makes a HUGE difference for creator... OpenBSD's
console code on creator is amazingly fast now).
2. (hard) Getting the second vga card in a machine working (say,
one that's not initialized or supported by the prom). This
is a nightmare on sparc64.
I'm unsure of the status of NetBSD's X support on sparc64, but these are
the issues we're facing in OpenBSD, and I'd appreciate any ideas (and
especially code ;) on how to solve these. NetBSD will have the same
issues soon, too =)
--Jason L. Wright