Subject: Re: Sparc graphics and other random ramblings...
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Gerald Richter <glassman1@neonshadow.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/17/2000 12:26:55
David Brownlee wrote:
>
> 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
> -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --
Both already do and in thier native OSes. :o/ And in linux... I now
officially find myself wanting some programming talent, and a clue as to
where to start figuring out how to code anything serious... I can do the
basic "Hello world!" program in C, and dig through code to make minor
functional modifications (and apply diffs that don't wanna work)..
-Gerald
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