[rescue] Slightly OT

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:05:25PM -0600, Dan Debertin wrote:
> Joshua D Boyd writes:
> 
>  > I'd go with NetBSD, except it looks like it will never have the
>  > graphics capabilities I need.
> 
> Don't despair. Lurking on port-sparc at netbsd.org lately has been fun --
> somebody has just fixed two long-outstanding PRs that (supposedly)
> cause 24-bit color to work on SX and TCX framebuffers. I haven't
> played with these diffs, but it's nice to know somebody's working on
> graphics for the sparc arch, which has been in an 8-bit,
> colormap-starved ghetto for too long.
> 
> I'm sure OpenBSD will incorporate (that's nice-talk for "steal") these
> changes soon after NetBSD does, so you'll be left with the same choice
> ;).

That's cool, but I'm more intested in things like really good, direct to 
hardware OpenGL implementations.  Like, Nvidea with DRI (not really good, but
OK), FX10 with HP's X server.  Anything SGI.

Then there is the world of video IO (which frankly linux is a bizarre maze of
wierd and poorly supported standards, which is about 30 steps further along
than NetBSD).

Do things like the xvideo extension even work on NetBSD?  That is an Xserver
issue mainly, so it might...

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd