Re: XFree86 4.0.1 on PowerPC status update #2
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:09:54PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: The input code is used only for the USB support. If we want to keep that, we're going to have to make it build. What I would do: - #undef the necessary constants until it compiles - #define HasLinuxInput ON explicitly, instead of letting it default by the running kernel version. - Force OSMajorVersion and OSMinorVersion. We could do this based on the installed headers, or based on the standard 2.2 kernel - both are pretty easy. So basically it needs to check linux/version.h instead of checking proc. Question is then, will this 2.2.x build run on 2.4.x? :) Yep. The only difference is in enabling of the USB driver, as I said. Well, the only difference in this driver... for others, I'd need to poke around. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \/ \/
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 on PowerPC status update #2
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:47:16AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:00:13AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: However, unfortunately, some things in the XFree86 tree (the Wacom input module, at least) build differently on kernel 2.4 systems than they do on 2.2 systems. More to the point, building xf86Wacom.c flat out fails on 2.4 boxen. Would it solve the problem if you were using 2.4 kernel headers aswell as running a 2.4 kernel? If so, would that same build work on a 2.2 kernel? Well, the problem is actually a little more fundamental. There's a couple things wrong: - Using the version of the running kernel is just bad form - This won't build on 2.4, period. It uses enums for a constant defined in linux/input.h (BUS_PCI). You just can't include the current linux/input.h in X source - not unless you go out of your way to undef some of its constants. - It assumes 2.4 has the header and 2.2 doesn't. As of 2.2.18pre21, both do. The input code is used only for the USB support. If we want to keep that, we're going to have to make it build. What I would do: - #undef the necessary constants until it compiles - #define HasLinuxInput ON explicitly, instead of letting it default by the running kernel version. - Force OSMajorVersion and OSMinorVersion. We could do this based on the installed headers, or based on the standard 2.2 kernel - both are pretty easy. I can make a patch for this if you want. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \/ \/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 on PowerPC status update #2
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:09:54PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: The input code is used only for the USB support. If we want to keep that, we're going to have to make it build. What I would do: - #undef the necessary constants until it compiles - #define HasLinuxInput ON explicitly, instead of letting it default by the running kernel version. - Force OSMajorVersion and OSMinorVersion. We could do this based on the installed headers, or based on the standard 2.2 kernel - both are pretty easy. So basically it needs to check linux/version.h instead of checking proc. Question is then, will this "2.2.x" build run on 2.4.x? :) Yep. The only difference is in enabling of the USB driver, as I said. Well, the only difference in this driver... for others, I'd need to poke around. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \/ \/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 on PowerPC status update #2
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:00:13AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: However, unfortunately, some things in the XFree86 tree (the Wacom input module, at least) build differently on kernel 2.4 systems than they do on 2.2 systems. More to the point, building xf86Wacom.c flat out fails on 2.4 boxen. Would it solve the problem if you were using 2.4 kernel headers aswell as running a 2.4 kernel? If so, would that same build work on a 2.2 kernel? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 on PowerPC status update #2
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:47:16AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:00:13AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: However, unfortunately, some things in the XFree86 tree (the Wacom input module, at least) build differently on kernel 2.4 systems than they do on 2.2 systems. More to the point, building xf86Wacom.c flat out fails on 2.4 boxen. Would it solve the problem if you were using 2.4 kernel headers aswell as running a 2.4 kernel? If so, would that same build work on a 2.2 kernel? Well, the problem is actually a little more fundamental. There's a couple things wrong: - Using the version of the running kernel is just bad form - This won't build on 2.4, period. It uses enums for a constant defined in linux/input.h (BUS_PCI). You just can't include the current linux/input.h in X source - not unless you go out of your way to undef some of its constants. - It assumes 2.4 has the header and 2.2 doesn't. As of 2.2.18pre21, both do. The input code is used only for the USB support. If we want to keep that, we're going to have to make it build. What I would do: - #undef the necessary constants until it compiles - #define HasLinuxInput ON explicitly, instead of letting it default by the running kernel version. - Force OSMajorVersion and OSMinorVersion. We could do this based on the installed headers, or based on the standard 2.2 kernel - both are pretty easy. I can make a patch for this if you want. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \/ \/
