25 May 2002 spot   » (Master)

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.

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