Re: Sun Elite3D firmware (afb.ucode) binary blob redistribution

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

  Wow, even with the lack of build tools, this is fantastic news!   
Thanks Sun!

            -Dave

On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Michael wrote:
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> Looks like we can finally have out of the box afb support:
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> > From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith%Sun.COM@localhost>
> > Date: December 21, 2009 6:54:11 PM EST
> > To: x-packagers%lists.freedesktop.org@localhost, "X.Org Developers" <xorg- 
> > devel%lists.x.org@localhost>
> > Subject: Sun Elite3D firmware (afb.ucode) binary blob redistribution
> >
> > I know years ago several BSD & Linux distros were interested in this,
> > and it's probably years too late now, but after getting pinged again
> > this summer by OpenBSD developers, I was finally able to get  
> > permission
> > to allow afb.ucode redistribution as a binary blob under MIT  
> > License terms.
> >
> > If anyone out there is still interested (these cards are getting  
> > old now,
> > having been sold from 1998 to 2002), the firmware is posted at:
> >   http://dlc.sun.com/osol/sparc-gfx/downloads/afb-ucode.tar.bz2
> > The license terms are spelled out in the README included in the  
> > tarball.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm not able to release the tools needed to build the
> > firmware blob from sources, so while you can redistribute, you won't
> > be able to bug fix.
> >
> > --
> >         -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith%sun.com@localhost
> >          Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
> >
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