Deprecation question - hw/sun and hw/sunLynx

[Alan Coopersmith]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> Is anyone still using these DDXes?
> 
> I don't know if we'll be able to autotool these correctly in the modular build 
> if we don't have anyone who can test them.  I don't know what value these 
> DDXes have over the xfree86 DDX's sun drivers.
> 
> If no one speaks up for these DDXes I suggest marking them deprecated and not 
> including them in the 7.0 server module.  They can always be re-added from 
> the 6.9 code.

hw/sun is used to build the Xsun server (not the same Xsun we ship in 
Solaris, but the old Xsun from the X Consortium).   For 6.8 this note
was added to README.Solaris:

   2.  Also on SPARCs, you may be able to build the old deprecated Xsun*
       servers for older cg* graphics devices by adding "#define XsunServer
       YES" or "#define Xsun24Server YES" or "#define XsunMonoServer YES" to
        xc/config/cf/host.def.  These servers are no longer maintained nor
       supported and may not build in this release.

Relevant bug was: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134

If you look at the patch you'll see even before that they were deprecated by
XFree86.

I don't know anything about hw/sunLynx - I assume it was for LynxOS on Sun
hardware, but have never seen that used.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering