Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:58:13 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fixes for X on PowerPC Message-ID: <52DC2045.1030404@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWntOvp1Rc8c4Rz_Kvu8J8fohKwkDWDCBc0QTaP3L36pyrvTA@mail.gmail.com> References: <52DC0770.7060000@freebsd.org> <CA%2BWntOvp1Rc8c4Rz_Kvu8J8fohKwkDWDCBc0QTaP3L36pyrvTA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/19/14 12:56, Joe Nosay wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn > <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org <mailto:nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > I was just bootstrapping a new (to me) laptop and ran into some > minor difficulties getting X running. They can be fixed with the > patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/new_xorg_ppc.diff > <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Enwhitehorn/new_xorg_ppc.diff>; > > It has the following parts: > 1. plist fix for graphics/libdrm (the Intel driver is only built > on x86 platforms) > 2. only apply MMX/SSE2 flags in configure on platforms that have > MMX and SSE2 for x11/pixman to avoid errors from configure > 3. Use old ATI driver on platforms without KMS (for now, > everything but x86) > 4. Fix error in xorg-server makefile EXTRA_PATCHES where some > platform-specific patches would replace rather than add to the > patches list. > > The only even vaguely substantive change is the last patch: > 5. xf86EnableIO() and xf86OpenConsole() no longer seem to be > called in the same order, with the result that xf86Info.consoleFd > hasn't been set yet when xf86EnableIO() is called. I've copied > what Linux does here and used /dev/mem instead, as well as copying > Linux in making errors there non-fatal. Incidentally, the > xf86EnableIO() implementation is one of the shadiest and most > questionable things I have ever seen. I really doubt it does > whatever it is meant to do correctly, but it at least does the > same thing old Xorg did now. > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > > > That's great. Will it also work for the desktop cards? Yes. -Nathan
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