Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:09:51PM +, Peter Maydell wrote:
# remove the upstream symlink X - XFree86
This symlink does not exist because the XFree86 server binary was not built
in the first place and therefore no symlink was created.
That's bad.
[Would I be better off asking this question of the debian-arm list?]
The actual porting will probably have to be done by someone familiar with
the ARM, but something could likely be cooked up fairly quickly, based on
the ARM patches for XFree86 3.x.
[I've added debian-arm to the CC list]
I tried putting together some patches based on a combination of the
3.x ARM patches and the 4.0 patches for other non-x86 architectures;
it's now falling over with a compile error in elfloader.c. It looks
like the dynamic loader has no ARM support at all, and I don't think
I can get away with just adding || defined(__arm__) to cpp conditionals
for this one :-
I've temporarily put my patches-so-far at:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/misc/patches.txt
if anybody else is interested.
(NB that in particular the list of 'which drivers to build' in xfree86.cf
is totally guesswork...)
[Incidentally, I think the way that non-Intel Linux architectures are
dealt with in the X sources is pretty vile; there's lots of places
that go :
#if defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__mc68000__) || defined(__alpha__) || ...
/* stuff for not-x86 */
#else
/* stuff for x86 */
#endif
which is just completely backwards. And it would be much cleaner in
elfloader.c to say #ifdef cpu_is_64_bit rather than
#if defined (__alpha__) || defined (__ia64__) || (defined (__sparc (...)
]
Peter Maydell
