Hey! Red Hat patented something that they plan on always
giving away, so that no one would ever patent it and not
give it away *cough*Sistina*cough*. Lets all grab our
pitchforks and torches and be idiots in the streets!
There'll be looting!
And now, on to the world of real-life relevance... well, not
quite, but close:
Aurora:
Unless something changes drastically between now and
release, 0.95sparc will be the kernel for Build 0.3. And
yes, I know I haven't put it up yet. linuxpower.org is going
away at the end of the month, and it seems to be down
altogether now. I haven't really switched hosting over yet.
I should do that though.
Installed the Build 0.3 tree on the SMP Ultra 2. It seemed
very happy, until I ran Xconfigurator, and it blew up in my
face. So, I spent most of yesterday's freetime debugging
huge chunks of the code, trying to find where it breaks. I
ended up rewriting a section of the SBUS probing so that it
works correctly, and making it always be nodri (I'm not
aware of any DRM for sparc video cards, although, in theory,
i think the ati DRM might work). The new Xconfigurator
generates a valid config for 24 bit 1024x768 on the Creator
3d, although, the "valid modes" list was wrong. Have to look
at that code at some point. Also had to edit hwdata, since
it had invalid entries. I'm sure there are a lot more in
there, but I don't have all the hardware to test.
Booted a test installer kernel image today, it got to the
tui "Language Selection" screen and sig11'd when I chose
English. Perhaps it wanted Redneck. Well, its a start.
Sun has offered to loan me an Ultra 10 + flat panel monitor
for LWCE
in San Francisco during the second week of August. I'm
tempted to go, if any of the Aurora readers/volunteers feel
like hanging out in the booth, let me know via email:
(tcallawa@redhat.com). Don't officially have a booth yet,
but it can't hurt to go ahead and see if theres any
interest, or if it would just be me.