Linux (was Re: [SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3 mouse)

[Jaakko Niemi]

On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:19:20PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Eric Busto wrote:
> 
> > Yikes, whats the delay?  Sparcbooks have been out since 1996 or so?  Is it 
> > lack of documentation on the hardware, or just that there are very few 
> > programmers interested in helping port Linux to it?  I know a thing or two 
> > about C, and also familiar with Sparc V8 assembly, so I'd like to contribute 
> > if possible.  Can anyone point me to the right place?  Is there a Linux on 
> > Sparcbooks website or something of that nature?  Perhaps we should send one 
> > to Alan Cox.. he seems good at porting, a natural.  :>
> 
> The documentation was released only a month ago. assembly not important,
> what needs to be done is:
> a) a video driver finished (i started work on this a few days ago)
> b) X server modifications, if necessary, and they may not be 

 The Xfree86 XSun server uses the framebuffer afaik, so most propably
 it does not need to be modified much to get it working. 

	--j