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

[Alan Coopersmith]

The Xsun sources we released via opensolaris.org have the licenses listed in the
source files.   Everything there should be MIT/X11 licensed, or a close
equivalent such as BSD - certainly everything under Sun copyright was released
under the MIT/X11 license, other sources mostly came from upstream X Consortium
releases.

The cg3 driver wasn't present in the sources this release came from, since I
released the last Xsun sources from the Solaris Nevada development train, many
years after cg3 support was removed from Solaris.

-Alan Coopersmith-              [e-mail]
     Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

On 04/11/12 11:53 AM, Nathan Kunkee wrote:
> 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]
> > CC: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> > 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.