Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:23:15 -0500 | From | Miguel de Icaza <> | Subject | Re: 2 thoughts. . . |
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> If Sun were to introduce a new box, it would not > be very fun if they pulled a "Diamond" on us, and refused to tell us > any technical information outside of user space.
Well, currently we lack a bunch of information for the Sun video cards. Most of the information comes from looking at the Sun X server distributed in X11R6, but these ones do not support the high end video cards from sun. Notably, we are sub using the cg14 and there is no support for the Leo cards.
I have asked many times for information on those video cards at Sun Mexico without much success, they never phone me back with the information, I'm told that this is the same case on the US, you can't get any infomration on the cg14, nor the Leo nor the SX nor a couple of the other cool toys.
Currently Linux/SPARC can drive an accelerated 32 bit video card as a dumb 8 bit frame buffer because of lack of information, so we don't get any accelerated pixel out of it and not a single extra color from 256.
One of those video cards has some kind of MMU chip for the video card, another one has a cpu inside and you have to download code to it before you can take advantage of it.
I would love to run the gimp on 32 bit mode on my Linux/Sparc instead of the crappy 8 bit I'm using now, while the guys next to me running Solaris are happily running the gimp on 24 bit mode.
Having a good relationship with Sun shouldn't hurt us at all.
Best wishes, Miguel.
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