From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 21:30:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D8316A4CE; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:30:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427BB43FBD; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0D9F366D35; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:30:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:30:29 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <20031127053029.GA60962@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20031127042759.GA60140@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031127052505.GA12627@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031127052505.GA12627@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: anholt@FreeBSD.org cc: re-ia64@FreeBSD.org cc: ia64@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: XFree86-4-Server marked NOT_FOR_ARCHS=ia64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:30:35 -0000 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:25:05PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:28:00PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > For some reason XFree86-4-Server is marked NOT_FOR_ARCHS=3Dia64, which > > means it cannot be built for the disc 1 packages. What is supposed to > > be going on here? Should XFree86 be depending on a different server > > port for ia64, or is this port just broken on ia64 and in need of a > > fix? >=20 > I have the necessary patches to make it build. However, there are > kernel issues that are non-trivial to fix. Those are mainly caused > by the X server accessing the hardware directly. Our VM is not > capable to provide memory mappings with specific attributes to > allow processes to access memory mapped hardware. This is needed > on ia64. >=20 > Secondly, the X server needs syscons which is too i386 centric to > be used on ia64 without porting it. The end result will invariably > be something that's kludgy and awkward. Just like on alpha and > sparc64. I'm looking at something else. OK. I guess there wasn't a whole lot of point me getting things like KDE packages built for ia64 then :) Kris --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/xYv1Wry0BWjoQKURAgM9AJ91fF2Vnr1f4n7PbnfyzmzDtMN90gCeMQqG qQvmIyaeibbf/kFaxGHi6ZU= =hN/T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--