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Xorg on NetBSD
Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:19:01 PM
NetBSD 5.0 will ship with Xorg on x86, sparc64, macppc and shark - most other ports will still ship with XFree86 for one or more of the following reasons:
Actually, getting Xorg to work on prep, bebox, ofppc, ibmnws and netwinder should be pretty much trivial, it's just a matter of the right combination of skill, time and hardware in the right hands.
Alpha and sgimips may still ship with Xorg - the platform support code for alpha is working on at least some models and I have both newport and crime drivers working on my machines. Both beat their XFree86 equivalents soundly - the old newport driver is unaccelerated and the old crime driver is highly experimental, required unreleased hacks to work and still produces visual glitches. Both Xorg drivers support the usual acceleration features, including alpha-blending.
- special hardware-specific Xservers couldn't be ported to Xorg yet ( some DEC specific ones, probably others )
- not all drivers have been ported from XFree86 ( that's the case on sparc and sgimips )
- platform-specific code wasn't ready at branch time ( alpha )
Actually, getting Xorg to work on prep, bebox, ofppc, ibmnws and netwinder should be pretty much trivial, it's just a matter of the right combination of skill, time and hardware in the right hands.
Alpha and sgimips may still ship with Xorg - the platform support code for alpha is working on at least some models and I have both newport and crime drivers working on my machines. Both beat their XFree86 equivalents soundly - the old newport driver is unaccelerated and the old crime driver is highly experimental, required unreleased hacks to work and still produces visual glitches. Both Xorg drivers support the usual acceleration features, including alpha-blending.
