From alan.coopersmith@oracle.com Fri May 7 14:20:56 2010 Received: from sunmail6brm.central.sun.com (sunmail6brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.169]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o47LKu4q006030 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 14:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail6brm.central.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id o47LKt7T006072 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@Sun.Com>; Fri, 7 May 2010 16:20:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0L2200J1BJAV8K00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-ext@Sun.Com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@Sun.Com); Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com ([129.145.155.118]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0L22007EUJAUHN20@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-ext@Sun.Com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@Sun.Com); Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.145.155.53] (sunray-osol-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.53]) by dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id o47LKrFx013212; Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:53 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith Subject: Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection [PSARC/2010/161 FastTrack timeout 05/14/2010] To: PSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: dminer@opensolaris.org, xwin-discuss@opensolaris.org Message-id: <4BE48435.4010605@oracle.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090926) Status: RO Content-Length: 4112 I am sponsoring this case for the X team. The timer is set for one week from today, May 14, 2010. The case requests a patch release binding as it simply adds new interfaces in a compatible fashion. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@sun.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Alan Coopersmith 1.3 Date of This Document: 07 May, 2010 4. Technical Description This case introduces interfaces for other software to use to request the Xorg server start using the VESA driver instead of trying to autodetect a hardware specific driver for the graphics card involved. The initial consumer will be the Caiman LiveCD, which currently offers this functionality via a grub boot menu option and delivers its own copy of the xorg.conf.vesa file. This case moves responsibility for delivering xorg.conf.vesa into the X consolidation, so that we can ensure it is always in sync with the Xorg server version delivered. The X consolidation will deliver two new interfaces that can be used to configure this mode: 1) Xorg -config xorg.conf.vesa When Xorg is called directly, using the command line flag "-config xorg.conf.vesa" will cause it to start with the VESA driver. 2) svc:/application/x11/x11-server property options/config_file When the SMF property options/config_file is set to a string value, that string will be passed as the -config argument to the X server when started via one of the mechanisms that uses the /usr/bin/X or /usr/bin/Xserver commands to start the X server with the options specified in SMF. This allows passing this option when the X server is started indirectly, such as via the gdm display manager. As described in the Xorg man page description of the -config flag when Xorg is started by non-root users, the value of this property must be a relative path from one of the directories in the Xorg config file search path, and not an absolute path. When the server property is set to a server other than Xorg, the config_file property will be ignored/unused, as none of the other currently shipped X servers accept a command line option for choosing configuration files. (Xsun is the only other X server with a configuration file, and it does not offer a command line option to choose a different path to load it from.) If any other servers develop such an option, adding support for this property should be done as part of integrating that option. The file xorg.conf.vesa, including both its path and its contents, are Project Private implementation details - only that Xorg will start in this mode when the string "xorg.conf.vesa" is used as the path to the configuration is the Uncommitted interface. Editing of this file will not be supported - users who want to customize their local configuration should still do so via the existing xorg.conf mechanisms or providing the name of a customized config file. Since the VESA driver is only available on x86 platforms due to hardware limitations, the xorg.conf.vesa will only be delivered & supported on those platforms. The options/config_file property to the x11-server service will be available on all platforms. Imported interfaces: -------------------- Xorg server command line options External PSARC 2004/187 svc:/application/x11/x11-server Evolving PSARC 2004/752 Exported interfaces: -------------------- x11-server SMF property options/config_file Uncommitted All platforms xorg.conf.vesa argument to Xorg -config or config_file SMF property Uncommitted x86-only 6. Resources and Schedule 6.4. Steering Committee requested information 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: X Consolidation (Desktop C-Team) 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 6.6. ARC Exposure: open From alan.coopersmith@oracle.com Mon May 10 13:38:06 2010 Received: from sunmail6brm.central.sun.com (sunmail6brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.169]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o47LKu4q006030 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 14:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail6brm.central.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id o47LKt7T006072 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@Sun.Com>; Fri, 7 May 2010 16:20:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0L2200J1BJAV8K00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-ext@Sun.Com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@Sun.Com); Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com ([129.145.155.118]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0L22007EUJAUHN20@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-ext@Sun.Com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@Sun.Com); Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.145.155.53] (sunray-osol-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.53]) by dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id o47LKrFx013212; Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:53 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith Subject: Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection [PSARC/2010/161 FastTrack timeout 05/14/2010] To: PSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: dminer@opensolaris.org, xwin-discuss@opensolaris.org Message-id: <4BE48435.4010605@oracle.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090926) Status: RO Content-Length: 4112 I am sponsoring this case for the X team. The timer is set for one week from today, May 14, 2010. The case requests a patch release binding as it simply adds new interfaces in a compatible fashion. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@sun.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Alan Coopersmith 1.3 Date of This Document: 07 May, 2010 4. Technical Description This case introduces interfaces for other software to use to request the Xorg server start using the VESA driver instead of trying to autodetect a hardware specific driver for the graphics card involved. The initial consumer will be the Caiman LiveCD, which currently offers this functionality via a grub boot menu option and delivers its own copy of the xorg.conf.vesa file. This case moves responsibility for delivering xorg.conf.vesa into the X consolidation, so that we can ensure it is always in sync with the Xorg server version delivered. The X consolidation will deliver two new interfaces that can be used to configure this mode: 1) Xorg -config xorg.conf.vesa When Xorg is called directly, using the command line flag "-config xorg.conf.vesa" will cause it to start with the VESA driver. 2) svc:/application/x11/x11-server property options/config_file When the SMF property options/config_file is set to a string value, that string will be passed as the -config argument to the X server when started via one of the mechanisms that uses the /usr/bin/X or /usr/bin/Xserver commands to start the X server with the options specified in SMF. This allows passing this option when the X server is started indirectly, such as via the gdm display manager. As described in the Xorg man page description of the -config flag when Xorg is started by non-root users, the value of this property must be a relative path from one of the directories in the Xorg config file search path, and not an absolute path. When the server property is set to a server other than Xorg, the config_file property will be ignored/unused, as none of the other currently shipped X servers accept a command line option for choosing configuration files. (Xsun is the only other X server with a configuration file, and it does not offer a command line option to choose a different path to load it from.) If any other servers develop such an option, adding support for this property should be done as part of integrating that option. The file xorg.conf.vesa, including both its path and its contents, are Project Private implementation details - only that Xorg will start in this mode when the string "xorg.conf.vesa" is used as the path to the configuration is the Uncommitted interface. Editing of this file will not be supported - users who want to customize their local configuration should still do so via the existing xorg.conf mechanisms or providing the name of a customized config file. Since the VESA driver is only available on x86 platforms due to hardware limitations, the xorg.conf.vesa will only be delivered & supported on those platforms. The options/config_file property to the x11-server service will be available on all platforms. Imported interfaces: -------------------- Xorg server command line options External PSARC 2004/187 svc:/application/x11/x11-server Evolving PSARC 2004/752 Exported interfaces: -------------------- x11-server SMF property options/config_file Uncommitted All platforms xorg.conf.vesa argument to Xorg -config or config_file SMF property Uncommitted x86-only 6. Resources and Schedule 6.4. Steering Committee requested information 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: X Consolidation (Desktop C-Team) 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 6.6. ARC Exposure: open From garrett.damore@oracle.com Mon May 10 14:45:21 2010 Received: from sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail2sca.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.234]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4ALjL6a013452 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 14:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id o4ALjKmR010661 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:psarc-ext@sun.com>; Mon, 10 May 2010 14:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0L2800E034FKVH00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for psarc-ext@sun.com (ORCPT psarc-ext@sun.com); Mon, 10 May 2010 14:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sca-ea-mail-2.sun.com ([192.18.43.25]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0L28004XM4FKB590@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for psarc-ext@sun.com (ORCPT psarc-ext@sun.com); Mon, 10 May 2010 14:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by sca-ea-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id o4ALjJSe004972 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 21:45:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4AIQ1xs007331; Mon, 10 May 2010 21:45:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abhmt012.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 252781631273527830; Mon, 10 May 2010 14:43:50 -0700 Received: from [10.7.251.172] (/10.7.251.172) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 10 May 2010 14:43:49 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:43:48 -0700 From: "Garrett D'Amore" Subject: Re: Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection [PSARC/2010/161 FastTrack timeout 05/14/2010] In-reply-to: <4BE48435.4010605@oracle.com> To: Alan Coopersmith Cc: psarc-ext@sun.com, dminer@opensolaris.org, xwin-discuss@opensolaris.org Message-id: <4BE87E14.5010909@oracle.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4BE87E6A.0106:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 References: <4BE48435.4010605@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100412 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Status: RO Content-Length: 4493 The case seems reasonable enough (far less contentious than I first had guessed from the title alone). +1. - Garrett On 05/ 7/10 02:20 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I am sponsoring this case for the X team. The timer is set for one week > from today, May 14, 2010. The case requests a patch release binding as > it simply adds new interfaces in a compatible fashion. > > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@sun.com > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI > This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights > reserved. > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Alan Coopersmith > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 07 May, 2010 > 4. Technical Description > > This case introduces interfaces for other software to use to request the > Xorg server start using the VESA driver instead of trying to autodetect > a hardware specific driver for the graphics card involved. > > The initial consumer will be the Caiman LiveCD, which currently offers > this functionality via a grub boot menu option and delivers its own copy > of the xorg.conf.vesa file. This case moves responsibility for delivering > xorg.conf.vesa into the X consolidation, so that we can ensure it is always > in sync with the Xorg server version delivered. > > The X consolidation will deliver two new interfaces that can be used to > configure this mode: > > 1) Xorg -config xorg.conf.vesa > > When Xorg is called directly, using the command line flag > "-config xorg.conf.vesa" will cause it to start with the > VESA driver. > > 2) svc:/application/x11/x11-server property options/config_file > > When the SMF property options/config_file is set to a string value, > that string will be passed as the -config argument to the X server > when started via one of the mechanisms that uses the /usr/bin/X or > /usr/bin/Xserver commands to start the X server with the options > specified in SMF. This allows passing this option when the X server > is started indirectly, such as via the gdm display manager. > > As described in the Xorg man page description of the -config flag when > Xorg is started by non-root users, the value of this property must be > a relative path from one of the directories in the Xorg config file > search path, and not an absolute path. > > When the server property is set to a server other than Xorg, the > config_file property will be ignored/unused, as none of the other > currently shipped X servers accept a command line option for choosing > configuration files. (Xsun is the only other X server with a > configuration file, and it does not offer a command line option to > choose a different path to load it from.) If any other servers > develop such an option, adding support for this property should be > done as part of integrating that option. > > The file xorg.conf.vesa, including both its path and its contents, > are Project Private implementation details - only that Xorg will start in > this mode when the string "xorg.conf.vesa" is used as the path to the > configuration is the Uncommitted interface. Editing of this file will not > be supported - users who want to customize their local configuration should > still do so via the existing xorg.conf mechanisms or providing the name of > a customized config file. > > Since the VESA driver is only available on x86 platforms due to hardware > limitations, the xorg.conf.vesa will only be delivered& supported > on those platforms. The options/config_file property to the x11-server > service will be available on all platforms. > > > Imported interfaces: > -------------------- > Xorg server command line options External PSARC 2004/187 > svc:/application/x11/x11-server Evolving PSARC 2004/752 > > Exported interfaces: > -------------------- > x11-server SMF property options/config_file Uncommitted All platforms > > xorg.conf.vesa argument to > Xorg -config or config_file SMF property Uncommitted x86-only > > 6. Resources and Schedule > 6.4. Steering Committee requested information > 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: > X Consolidation (Desktop C-Team) > 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack > 6.6. ARC Exposure: open > > > > From alan.coopersmith@oracle.com Fri May 14 19:28:38 2010 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4F2SbG8020012 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 19:28:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id o4F2SbAX009176 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:psarc-ext@sun.com>; Fri, 14 May 2010 20:28:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0L2F00A03W7PIK00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for psarc-ext@sun.com (ORCPT psarc-ext@sun.com); Fri, 14 May 2010 19:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com ([129.145.155.118]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0L2F000QSW7OBK70@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for psarc-ext@sun.com (ORCPT psarc-ext@sun.com); Fri, 14 May 2010 19:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.145.155.53] (sunray-osol-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.53]) by dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.4) with ESMTP id o4F2SaHA020491; Fri, 14 May 2010 19:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 19:28:36 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith Subject: Re: Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection [PSARC/2010/161 FastTrack timeout 05/14/2010] In-reply-to: <4BE48435.4010605@oracle.com> To: psarc-ext@sun.com Cc: dminer@opensolaris.org, xwin-discuss@opensolaris.org Message-id: <4BEE06D4.8010800@oracle.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 References: <4BE48435.4010605@oracle.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090926) Status: RO Content-Length: 451 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I am sponsoring this case for the X team. The timer is set for one week > from today, May 14, 2010. The case requests a patch release binding as > it simply adds new interfaces in a compatible fashion. A week has passed, and the only comment was the +1 from Garrett, so this case is now closed approved. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System