Deprecation question - hw/sun and hw/sunLynx

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Apr 28 16:04:25 PDT 2005


On Saturday 23 April 2005 22:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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  These servers are no longer maintained nor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.

So we'll inherit their deprecation and handle these like DPS.  They're already 
off in the imake build, if no one makes them build in 7.0 then they'll just 
not be included in the server module.

- ajax
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