On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
oh, ok. I just asked. No problem. thnx -- %martin _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
