Sparc more cutting edge than x86? follow xorg sticky note?

[labrador]

First I noticed that 2.4.27 appeared in stable on sparc before
on x86 (x86 is still at 2.4.26-r{something}).

Now today I see xorg is appearing in my emerge -up world output.

Yikes! I'm not ready...

The sparc forum sticky on xorg emerging was written while it
was still in unstable. Do the directions there still apply

What is the latest story with Elite 3D (M3 in my case)?

[labrador]

Others not using the deep switch may not have seen this
package appear today. Check out the difference between Deep
and no Deep:

[labrador]

I took the plunge and it worked very well.
I used emerge -uD world and it found the
other related packages needed to build and
support xorg-x11, in a version 6.8.0.

The current XF86Config was attempted to be patched with
the best stuff needed for xorg. That was pretty close except
for the keyboard. I didn't need to build a mesalib from
their source (possibly included in the current xorg?), and
I now have glxgears and glxinfo working for the first time!

I get between 95 and 120 FPS from glxgears, running
a 300 Mhz Ultra 60 with Elite 3D m3 video.

In case it helps anyone else, here is my config file
for xorg (includes depreciated keyboard settings
which are currently required for Sun keyboard
and a 2.4 kernel) :

[Ferris]

With xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1, you no longer need to rebuild libGL from mesa source if you want any sort of reasonable performance with Elite3d (m3 or m6).
The 95--120 FPS you see is probably optimal for 300MHz CPUs and afb (Elite).