Re: [OpenBIOS] OT: Brooktree IC used in cg3 graphics framebuffer?

[Nathan Kunkee]

Hi Bob,

I found the email where Alan announced this, but don't see a license off hand. I think it was a BSD-like don't-take-credit-don't-point-fingers-use-at-own-risk but don't see anything. Hopefully Alan isn't too sideswiped by this and can chime in.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2010-July/004624.html

As I recall with the announcement, one of the restrictions on releasing the source was that only the cg6 driver would be provided, since it was already part of the vendor SDK.

Nathan
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:45:15 -0500
> From: [e-mail]
> To: [e-mail]
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> Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] OT: Brooktree IC used in cg3 graphics framebuffer?
>
> On 4/10/2012 4:15 PM, Nathan Kunkee wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not an answer to your question, but perhaps helpful:
> >
> > Alan Coopersmith managed to get the source for XSun released, and it
> > includes the cg6 driver. You can see it here:
> > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/x/downloads/openXsun/
>
> What license is this released under?  (Hopefully something GPL
> compatible.)  And is there anything in there for the cg14 framebuffer,
> or would that only exist in Xsun24?
>
> Bob
> > Nathan
> > > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:03:11 +0100
> > > From: [e-mail]
> > > To: [e-mail]
> > > Subject: [OpenBIOS] OT: Brooktree IC used in cg3 graphics framebuffer?
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > A slightly off-topic question, however there may be some people on the
> > > list who will know the answer to this: what was the number of the
> > > Brooktree IC used on the cg3 framebuffer? According to various sources,
> > > it looks like the BT458 was used on the cg6 - is this the same as
> >
> > the cg3?
> > > ATB,
> > >
> > > Mark.