From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 11 2:21:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA1414C0A for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 02:21:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20825; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:23:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:23:33 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Steve Price , Eric Schnoebelen , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11R6 for FreeBSD/alpha In-Reply-To: <199910110611.AAA16171@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Steve Price wrote... > > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Eric Schnoebelen wrote: > > > > # > > # Greetings, > > # > > # I went to install FreeBSD on my AXPpci33 this weekend, > > # and found that X Windows doesn't appear to exist as a prebuilt > > # distribution. Is this correct? > > # > > # Has anyone succeeded in building X Windows on the alpha? > > # FYI: I'm not interested in the servers, just the clients and > > # development libraries. > > > > Yes. The only trick is to > > > > cp /usr/src/sys/pci/pci_iotcl.h /usr/include/sys > > > > I've been a bit busy lately and haven't found a clean way to fix > > this yet. > > IMO, we should probably reformat the file and move it into src/sys/sys. > (The formatting is bad; I just kept my additions in line with the code that > was in there, but it should be re-done.) > > It also might make sense to rename it to pciio.h, although I'm not sure > what that would break. The only system utility that I know of that uses > the PCI ioctl interface is pciconf. And I suppose the Alpha port of > XFree86 is the other thing it would "break". The alpha port of XFree86 would be very easy to fix. I think pciio.h is certainly the right name for this (ideally it should have a copyright notice too...) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message