Bug 1378

Summary:	sun and sunLynx DDXen exist
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Adam Jackson <ajax>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	high	CC:	alan.coopersmith, roland.mainz
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	1245

Description Adam Jackson 2004-09-14 10:01:56 UTC

i have no idea what hardware these two correspond to.  i'm not even sure they
have users anymore.  i strongly suspect they should be deprecated in favor of
the sun* drivers under the xfree86 DDX.

sunLynx looks like a fairly trivial conversion, but sun might be harder.

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2004-09-14 10:19:58 UTC

If you're referring to the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/sun directory, it supports
ancient framebuffers from Sun - from the README:
        Sun/2           bw2     cg2/3/5
        Sun/3           bw2     cg2/3/4/5
        Sun/4           bw2     cg2/4
        SPARCstation            cg3/6
        Sun/386i        mono    color

The only one of those I think I could even find hardware for would be the cg6
SBus card, and there's a newer driver for that under hw/xfree86/drivers/suncg6
already.  The cg6 is the only one ever supported in a UltraSPARC series machine
- the others were only supported in older machines (in some cases, much older
as noted above).

sunLynx appears to be a similar set of drivers for LynxOS on SPARC hardware, 
but I know nothing about that.

Comment 2 Thomas Mueller 2004-12-03 02:47:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> sunLynx appears to be a similar set of drivers for LynxOS on SPARC hardware, 
> but I know nothing about that.

Recent LynxOS versions no longer support SPARC hardware.

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2005-03-14 11:04:54 UTC

i would like to deprecate these entirely then.  all the cards supported by these
DDXes have counterparts in the xfree86 DDX.

Comment 4 Alan Coopersmith 2005-04-23 19:35:22 UTC

BTW, as noted in bug 1134, the Xsun server which uses hw/sun no longer builds and
is documented as deprecated.

Comment 5 Alan Coopersmith 2005-10-02 00:22:02 UTC

These will not be incorporated in Xorg 7.0 - do they need to be removed from 6.9
as well, or is that good enough to close this bug?

Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2005-10-04 18:26:57 UTC

not including them in 7.0 is good enough for me.

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