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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:23:33 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X11R6 for FreeBSD/alpha
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910111022210.91778-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199910110611.AAA16171@panzer.kdm.org>

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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...)

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