Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 18:01:03 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and ELF Message-ID: <19980904180103.B28237@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809032126020.360-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:29:36PM %2B0100 References: <19980903215052.B26062@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809032126020.360-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:29:36PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: >On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, David Dawes wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 01:52:30PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: >> >David Dawes wrote: >> >> Maybe it would be a good >> >> idea to wait a little while until everything is resolved, then send another >> >> patch? I don't have a box running 3.0 ELF yet, but I'm planning to set one >> >> up in the next week or two. >> > >> >Can we also wait for FreeBSD/Alpha to be included (in some form) too? >> >> When you have XFree86 patches for FreeBSD/Alpha, just send them to us. > >I'll let someone else commit the ELF patches which is 99% of the work. >I'll add the patch for building XFree86 clients on the alpha after that. I >don't think the inet_addr() changes are really necessary since libc now >exports the right weak symbols so it should just be config file changes >plus some server tweaks. I plan on including the inet_addr() changes in the XFree86 devel source anyway since it is clearly a bug. >Getting the servers running on the alpha is a different ball game >altogether :-). Yes, that'll require a bit more work :-). The main thing will be providing the equivalent bits that Linux/Alpha provides in the XFree86 os-support layer. A non-FreeBSD specific issue is then getting more of the servers/drivers 64-bit clean and Alpha friendly (only a fairly small subset are currently supported on Linux/Alpha). David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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