xvr 600 graphical accelerator ?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 12:10:35PM -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:58:21PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > Can I use XVR 600 graphical accelerator with fbsd?
> > 
> > http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/graphics/xvr600/index.xml
> > 
> > This is the card I was given with my blade 1500 box.
> > The specs are very impressive, but is the card supported
> > by fbsd at all?
> > 
> 
> I'm afraid it wouldn't. You may have to use serial console until
> someone make driver for XVR600. Don't know Marius have a plan to
> write a driver.

I see OpenBSD have drivers for this and other xvr cards:

http://www.openbsd.org/45.html

under what's new:

# ifb(4), a driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (accelerated).
# wildcatfb(4), an X driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (unaccelerated). 

Is it feasible to port a driver from obsd to fbsd?

many thanks


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