Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:12:59 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: x11@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] switch default xorg version in 9.1 and later Message-ID: <20130620171259.GA88151@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <51C0AE69.6090505@freebsd.org> References: <51C0AE69.6090505@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:00:57PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote: > Hi! > It is time to switch the default version of xorg on FreeBSD 9.1 and > later, including CURRENT. > In general this means better support for modern hardware, especially > intel hardware, at the cost of support for some legacy hardware. > The old version will still be around, and be the default for FreeBSD > releases prior to 9.1, it is also possible to get the old version by > setting WITHOUT_NEW_XORG= in /etc/make.conf. > The attached patch will make the switch, and I intend to commit it ASAP > unless something major shows up. The patch is also available at > http://people.freebsd.org/~zeising/xorg-switch.diff Could you please make setting WITH_NEW_XORG additionally a function of the architecture and not enable it for sparc64? The update to Xorg 7.7 already broke support for ATI graphics with the _old_ Xorg server there for reasons still unknown. Last time I gave WITH_NEW_XORG a try I fixed all build errors on !x86 as good as I could but it blew X on sparc64 totally out of the water, including causing bizarre crashes of the X server even when using an UPA- rather than a PCI-based graphics card. Generally, support for Intel hardware isn't relevant on sparc64 and sooner or later everything AMD/ATI that is not Radeon likely will be declared "legacy". Marius
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