[comp.windows.x] Porting X server to Sparc2 GS

gstiehl@convex.com (Greg Stiehl) (02/22/91)

Does anyone have any experience porting the MIT sample sever to
Sun's GS graphics board?  Anyone have a general idea as to the difficulty
of this?

We are considering the GS (instead of the GX) to do our PEX work since
it has hardware to do 3-D things like gouraud shading...   Our big
issue is whether or not we will be able to port the MIT sample server.
I'm assuming that the basic frame buffer code will be the same (until
I hack it up), and I will just have to write a cg???.c (I think it is
cgtwelve) in mit/server/ddx/sun.  Am I underestimating this effort?

Any feedback on this is more than welcome.  We need to make a decision
on this soon.  I want to get the faster hardware, but I can't afford to
spend a lot of time on it.

Please e-mail, if possible.  If not, call me (collect if you need to).

Thanks,

-greg.

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Greg Stiehl (gstiehl@convex.com)
Graphics Software
Convex Computer Corp.
(214) 497-4715