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Date:      Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:04:31 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: graphics/libGL regression on sparc64
Message-ID:  <20120709130430.GN63893@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20120709094958.GB52954@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <20120619104247.GA13630@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120630121634.GA94551@alchemy.franken.de> <20120709094958.GB52954@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 10:49:59AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:16:34PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:42:47AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > On sparc64 r235474,
> > > updating from libGL-7.4.4 to 7.6.1 I get:
> > 
> > There are several problems preventing Xorg bits to build on sparc64
> > (and powerpc) since the update to 7.5.2. First, make sure you have a
> > ports tree with graphics/libdrm/Makefile rev. 1.25. Then apply the
> > following patches:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/fix-hal-on-sparc64.diff
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/dri_libGL_libdrm.diff
> > 
> > According to a quick test, the old server works fine with both the
> > mach64 and the sunffb driver on sparc64. When running `Xorg -configure`
> > you need to manually fix the resulting configuration file though
> > as any device on the PCI bus not being mach64 compatible is detected
> > as a radeon chip.
> > However, while the new server selected with WITH_NEW_XORG builds
> > just fine on sparc64 with these patches, it doesn't work there. For
> > mach64, there isn't any indication in the log why this doesn't work
> > besides "no screens found", although the configuration is correct,
> > libdrm is built without KMS support and the mach64 being detected.
> > For sunffb, it just segfaults.
> > 
> > Marius
> 
> Is there a PR on this? I'd like to track it.

No, not currently; I'm waiting for bapt@ to complete a -exp-run for
the options fix and to commit that patch and on feedback from miwi@
regarding the patch for fixing the dri, libGL and libdrm ports on
powerpc and sparc64.

Marius




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