On 01/13/10 10:01 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
Hi, please do not stop providing a single /dev/fb kernel module.
We have no plans to remove any /dev/fb kernel module that's currently in the OpenSolaris distro or IPS packages, but we have no plans to go back and add to OpenSolaris/IPS all the ones you list either:
Otherwise you need to explicitly redirect all your legacy PGX8, PGX24, PGX32, PGX64, Elite3D, Creator, Creator3D customers to me (and *may*be Expert3D, Expert3Dlite, XVR-500 and XVR-600 in the uncertain future, this statement is new).
Users of those boards are already being told by Sun they will need to remain on Solaris 10 for the remaining life of their hardware (much of which is already past the end of its support life and past what many customers who pay for support consider to be it's useful life). I'll happily redirect to you those who want to use it unsupported on their machines, but Sun is no longer supporting that hardware on Sun provided releases after Solaris 10, nor does it have the engineers at this time to continue maintaining those drivers for future releases. None of this should be news, or in any way changed from where we've been or what we've been saying for quite a while now. (Nor was it even the main point of the message, which was originally a response to people who misunderstood the end of SXCE as the end of Nevada.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
