From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 4 01:02:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19991 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 01:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA19977 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 01:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id SAA28733; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 18:01:03 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980904180103.B28237@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 18:01:03 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Doug Rabson Cc: John Birrell , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and ELF Mail-Followup-To: Doug Rabson , John Birrell , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980903215052.B26062@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:29:36PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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