Hello,

> I made another test kernel:
> http://macallan.homeunix.org:6704/stuff/BSD/sparc/SPARCbook3GX_04_11.bz2
> Changes:
> - added MSDOSFS ( for CF cards and such )
> - more tweaking of byte-swapping code in the PCMCIA driver

These changes:
> - working wsmouse ( uses the same code as sparc64 - ms* at zstty?  )
> - CG3 emulation in pnozz turned off
are mainly for XFree86. I got the cg3 driver to work earlier but started my own a few days ago so the cg3 emulation had to go :)
Since XFree86 doesn't know how to talk to a Sun mouse directly there had to be wsmouse support.
What works so far:
- XFree86 4.4 ( didn't use 4.5 because it had some serious problems on other platforms )
- 8 bit colour. Nothing else yet
- hardware cursor. So far the only really useful thing the cg3 driver wouldn't do too ;)

What doesn't work:
- external mice - that's a driver problem in NetBSD
- any non-native resolution, mode switching or external monitor support
- acceleration, although simple screen-to-screen copy stuff should be very easy to add, Line drawing and colour expansion isn't that hard either. We'll see.
- for some reason the Xserver hangs on exit - no idea why yet. 

If anyone is foolhardy enough to play with it I'll tar the binaries together and make them available for download. The Xserver needs the kernel mentioned above or something newer with my changes to the pnozz driver and cg3 emulation disabled, it will /not/ work with stock kernels, if emulation is in place it will use the cg3 driver.

Besides that it's surprisingly usable even without acceleration. I can't help wondering if Sun's Xserver used any acceleration on this chip at all.

have fun
Michael