Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Sun Fire V100/V120

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I know it can be done and the boys to talk to are
> www.navaho.co.uk... they did an OSRCD for me in the UK that
> installed redhat 7.0 onto a RaQ well they now have a full OSRCD
> written from scratch containing no Sun material using 2.4 kernel (it
> handles the rom flash for you - testing it properly before
> continuing) 

Have they done their own ROM? Or are they using a Sun ROM and tools?

> as well as that it includes the lcd panel and has similar menus in
> fact more.  

Adding stuff to the menus is fairly trivial - all menu actions and 
text are in scripts and directories below /etc/lcd.d

> In fact they have even released their lcd panel utils as open source
> back to redhat and I'm told they are included in the distro
> somewhere.

Did they do a clean-room implementation of the Cobalt LCD stuff?  
Because that was always a big problem for adding newer kernels and 
stuff to Cobalts, since they were not allowed to redistribute the LCD 
drivers (not GPL, etc from the manufacturer).  They just provided 
binary libraries...

I know that the product development teams were going to use a new LCD 
on future appliances (beyond the RaQ 550) that had open-source 
drivers, but as everyone knows, that won't be happening now...

- -- 
Bruce Timberlake

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