> Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> Cyril, >> >>it of course actually is: One line after another ;-) >>With gdiff, patch, cat, emacs or gedit and friends. >>But I do agree, that the ON branch is "slightly" bigger/more complex , >>than a "small" QEMU src base is ... >>How many such oddities did you encounter, given that only a few days >>separate the b47 versus post-b47 ? >> >> >>Regards, >>martin >> >> > > Another potentially possible option: Leaving the current tree at > b47-level and concentrating on getting the ppc stuff to a shell prompt. > _Then_ (once) generating a patch against b47, and afterwards eventually > merging the ppc relevant code into a then-current release. > That is _exactly_ what K.Wesolowski once did with his gcc-support. > He only added it _after_ it was actually functional. > It is now part of ON and gets automatically maintained, together with > the rest. > > Cyril's approach might be more professional, but it is all a question of > whether or not to waste resources. > A question of costs. > > (Just as I don't like Xorg 7.x's new modular concept, because running > configure in each subdir is another form of wasting time and cycles. > Though this comparision is in most aspects strawberries and apples.) >
I am sure glad that you are becoming an Xorg expert because we will need someone to work on the build on the ppc. Right now I want to get a handle on the memory manager ... what, if anything is going on here. I'm not expecting the process to be trivial. dc
