Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:56:56 -0500 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixes for X on PowerPC Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOvp1Rc8c4Rz_Kvu8J8fohKwkDWDCBc0QTaP3L36pyrvTA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52DC0770.7060000@freebsd.org> References: <52DC0770.7060000@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>wrote: > I was just bootstrapping a new (to me) laptop and ran into some minor > difficulties getting X running. They can be fixed with the patch at > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/new_xorg_ppc.diff > > It has the following parts: > 1. plist fix for graphics/libdrm (the Intel driver is only built on x86 > platforms) > 2. only apply MMX/SSE2 flags in configure on platforms that have MMX and > SSE2 for x11/pixman to avoid errors from configure > 3. Use old ATI driver on platforms without KMS (for now, everything but > x86) > 4. Fix error in xorg-server makefile EXTRA_PATCHES where some > platform-specific patches would replace rather than add to the patches list. > > The only even vaguely substantive change is the last patch: > 5. xf86EnableIO() and xf86OpenConsole() no longer seem to be called in the > same order, with the result that xf86Info.consoleFd hasn't been set yet > when xf86EnableIO() is called. I've copied what Linux does here and used > /dev/mem instead, as well as copying Linux in making errors there > non-fatal. Incidentally, the xf86EnableIO() implementation is one of the > shadiest and most questionable things I have ever seen. I really doubt it > does whatever it is meant to do correctly, but it at least does the same > thing old Xorg did now. > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > That's great. Will it also work for the desktop cards?
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