[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sparc

[Peter]

With regard to graphics, if the card can be initialised, then provided there are open graphics driver (the open radeon driver works quite well these days and is also supported by AMD), the card will work.

The trick will be compiling c to fcode and flashing it card rom to emulate a PC bios using x86emu (will post more on this shortly).

If we can use Xorg for sparc, then there can be more commonality between sparc and x86.

I had a look at OpenSxce's web site, but I can't find project mail lists or Jira, it appears to be the efforts of one developer?

Regards,

Peter.

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> From: Peter Firmstone <jini at zeus.net.au>
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> Is anyone actively developing OpenIndiana for Sparc?
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> Regards,
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> Peter
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> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 15:07:33 +0200
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> I think Martin Bochnig is doing something with opensxce (
> http://opensxce.org/)
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> good luck!
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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Peter Firmstone <jini at zeus.net.au> wrote:
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> > Is anyone actively developing OpenIndiana for Sparc?
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> > Regards,
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> > Peter
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> Martin botchnig has his own open sxce version for SPARC.
> El 04/09/2014 09:37, "Peter Firmstone" <jini at zeus.net.au> escribi?:
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> > Is anyone actively developing OpenIndiana for Sparc?
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> > Regards,
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> > Peter
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> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:54:56 +1000
> From: Peter <jini at zeus.net.au>
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> Thanks Alexander,
> 
> I noticed that Xorg used by Solaris 11 is still freely available.
> 
> With regard to PC graphics card options, people who use apple often
> flash their cards to add code that calls the PC Bios code, Open Firmware
> and coreboot have been emulating pc bios also,   so I'm investigating
> whether something similar to the apple folks (who use UEFI) can be done
> for open boot. 
> 
> There's a lot of very powerful cheap sun servers around at present.
> 
> Peter.
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> ----- Original message -----
> > On 09/04/2014 16:36, Peter Firmstone wrote:
> > > Is anyone actively developing OpenIndiana for Sparc?
> > > 
> > 
> > IIRC, Tomas Soome has recently built OpenIndiana for SPARC. Not sure
> > if   it's ready for public use.
> > -- 
> > Best regards,
> > Alexander Pyhalov,
> > system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:13:37 +0200
> From: "Nikola M." <minikola at gmail.com>
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> On 09/ 4/14 10:54 PM, Peter wrote:
> > Thanks Alexander,
> > 
> > I noticed that Xorg used by Solaris 11 is still freely available.
> > 
> > With regard to PC graphics card options, people who use apple often
> > flash their cards to add code that calls the PC Bios code, Open
> > Firmware and coreboot have been emulating pc bios also,   so I'm
> > investigating whether something similar to the apple folks (who use
> > UEFI) can be done for open boot.
> > 
> > There's a lot of very powerful cheap sun servers around at present.
> > 
> > Peter.
> If you manage to flash cards to work on SPARC/Open Boot (if "only" 
> flashing card is enough), you would still need drivers for SPARC for
> them. So if there are working open drivers for other platforms, could be
> done, if cards can be flashed and/or electrically changed or made to
> work on   SPARC/Open Boot.
> 
>