dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (05/21/87)
In article <128@uoregon.UUCP> sanjay@fog.UUCP (Sanjay Rajopadhye) writes: > We are getting a couple of hp bobcats later this summer, and I'm interested >in getting magic and the berkeley tools running on them. Does anyone have >pointers on what is involved in writing the graphics drivers (actually >modifying the existing (most likely color Sun) drivers). Better yet, has >anyone already done this and would be willing to share the result. I did this at UCLA. The port requires the X windows system. This is a much upgraded version of an HPUX magic CMU has. We are using it pretty heavily now. It is compatible with 4, 6 and 8 bitplane color monitors. It took a non-stop, little sleep week to do it, so I don't recommend repeating the effort. This version of X magic is very solid (doesn't crash, completely functional). The CMU version crashes quite often, and doesn't work with 4 bitplane monitors. I am incredibly overworked at the moment and don't really want to assemble a distribution for about a month or two. Those people who want the new X graphics driver, and the mods for HPUX, can send me a message. I'll get back to you when time has been carved out. We have also ported many of the tools (spice2g6, esim, rsim, crystal, sim2spice, ...) to HPUX. _D_a_n_ _G_r_e_e_n_i_n_g _A_R_P_A- dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU _U_U_C_P- ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!dgreen
tamir@CS.UCLA.EDU (05/22/87)
In article <6176@shemp.UCLA.EDU- dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (Dan R. Greening) writes: -In article <128@uoregon.UUCP> sanjay@fog.UUCP (Sanjay Rajopadhye) writes: - -> We are getting a couple of hp bobcats later this summer, and I'm interested ->in getting magic and the berkeley tools running on them. Does anyone have ->pointers on what is involved in writing the graphics drivers (actually ->modifying the existing (most likely color Sun) drivers). Better yet, has ->anyone already done this and would be willing to share the result. - -I did this at UCLA. The port requires the X windows system. This is -a much upgraded version of an HPUX magic CMU has. ... -I am incredibly overworked at the moment and don't really want to -assemble a distribution for about a month or two. Those people who -want the new X graphics driver, and the mods for HPUX, can send me a -message. I'll get back to you when time has been carved out. The above message from Dan Greening needs to be clarified: Magic under X on HPs running HP-UX is a result of efforts by several people at UCLA. Dan Greening was one of the people involved. What we did here are relatively minor modifications of software written by groups at Berkeley, Stanford, and CMU. No software will be distributed without authorization from those groups. Yuval Tamir Internet: tamir@cs.ucla.edu UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf,trwspp,randvax,ism780}!ucla-cs!tamir
dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (05/22/87)
I just want to make it clear that several people contributed to making
the HPUX + X Windows work, notably some people from Stanford and Yuval
Tamir from UCLA. That omission was based on an assumption that CMU
had made all the updates, when in actuality they were not the
exclusive authors.
As many people know, Magic is the result of many authors, primarily
Berkeley.
License to use Magic is granted through the University of California, and
distribution of the source depends on discussions with UC Berkeley.
However, I will still collect the names of interested parties and
either make X Magic available directly or refer your names to the
appropriate party, depending on those discussions.
_D_a_n_ _G_r_e_e_n_i_n_g _A_R_P_A- dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU
_U_U_C_P- ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!dgreengwu@vlsi.cs.cmu.edu (George Wu) (05/26/87)
> The CMU version crashes quite often, and doesn't work with 4 bitplane > monitors. I disagree with you in part. Our version is quite stable. It was used for an entire semester by about fifteen grads without any problems. But you are right about the number of bit planes. I never did finish the four bitplane version, as we got all of our machines upgraded to six bitplanes. Our version too is currently not for release. Sorry folks. I'll post when it is available. George