Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:25:23 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixes for X on PowerPC Message-ID: <52EC3EF3.9080707@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <52DFECD2.4040509@daemonic.se> References: <52DC0770.7060000@freebsd.org> <52DFECD2.4040509@daemonic.se>
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On 01/22/14 10:07, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 01/19/14 18:12, Nathan Whitehorn 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 >> >> It has the following parts: >> 1. plist fix for graphics/libdrm (the Intel driver is only built on x86 >> platforms) > This is being worked on, together with at least making ia64 work as > well, possibly other architectures as well. Neither kwm nor me (the two > of us who does the heavy lifting) has access to anything other than x86 > and x86_64, so it's slightly slow going. > >> 2. only apply MMX/SSE2 flags in configure on platforms that have MMX and >> SSE2 for x11/pixman to avoid errors from configure > Why is this needed? Shouldn't ${MACHINE_CPU:Mmmx} and > ${MACHINE_CPU:Msse2} be undefined for CPUs (including ppc) that don't > have mmx or sse2? This should prevent mmx and sse2 from being used at > all. Or am I misunderstanding the issue here? > Regards! Any news on these? It would be nice to get X working on PPC again. I'm perfectly happy to commit any or all of these myself if a ports committer will give approval. -Nathan
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