Hi Ken,

bills are _a_ damn urgent tyrannic core-problem, but still only a side-show.
It is more like:

Task: Build the 3 Pyramids of Gizeh in 1:1 size from original stones material 
as copy 1 mile south of the original Pyramids.


Available funds: for food, staff and material: (0 (actually a large negative 
sum, but let's stick to calling it zero)

Available workforce: 2 or 3 unpaid hungry slaves.


Available time: 2 to 3 days


Is that clearer now?

As for the Via/OpenChrome (and other vendors') drivers: You need to check if 
they also require KMS now or not, if not then they may function on Solaris. But 
given that LinUX has DRM/KMS for almost everything such chances are getting 
slimmer by the year.
Nevertheless - for Via/OpenChrome that may still be possible because it took 
very long until they first got KMS stable and into mainline:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VIA-KMS-Revival  

But AMD/Ati KMS (or a more modern Intel "i915") : Our only chance in that 
direction would be, if Oracle itself actually gets this done *plus* decides to 
share it with us. I'm not convinced of that.
Or if we make linuxkpi work.


But a few too many "if"'s for such bold statements.
Hence my shocked reaction.



%martin


>Вторник, 27 сентября 2016, 0:08 UTC от ken mays <[email protected]>:
>
>Hi Martin,
>
>Right. The sole objective proved we can compile these 'current' 2D drivers on 
>OI-Hipster today with the existing Solaris X11 infrastructure. Getting 
>everything else working properly requires stupendous mind-boggling mental 
>energy and funds. Everyone has bills to pay...
>
>~ Ken
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