Re: using externally built libs (Xcursor, Xrender, Xft)

2003-09-25 Thread Warren Turkal
David Dawes wrote: > XFree86 has some limited support for using already-installed > headers/libraries for some types of builds (like ServersOnly). Does > this patch build on that? It basically defines some new Imake symbols that refer to having the lib already instead of having to build it. It al

Re: simple patch for certain configs

2003-09-25 Thread Warren Turkal
David Dawes wrote: > That just fixes one of the symptoms of IHaveSubdirs being defined in this > case when it shouldn't be. The others remain. I'll commit a patch that > fixes it properly. Thanks, David :-D -- Warren Turkal President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org _

Re: using externally built libs (Xcursor, Xrender, Xft)

2003-09-25 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:56:14PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: >Here is another patch from the Debian project. It comes in 3 parts. I >basically allows XFree86 to build using an externally built libs. XFree86 has some limited support for using already-installed headers/libraries for some types of

Re: simple patch for certain configs

2003-09-25 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:30:21PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: >Here is a patch from the Debian packages that fixes certain build configs. > >$Id: 017_fix_Xlib_depend_target.diff 586 2003-09-25 19:31:35Z branden $ > >This patch by Ishikawa MUTSUMI. > >Fixes build failure due to missing depend targe

using externally built libs (Xcursor, Xrender, Xft)

2003-09-25 Thread Warren Turkal
Here is another patch from the Debian project. It comes in 3 parts. I basically allows XFree86 to build using an externally built libs. http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741 It wouldn't let me classify into multiple libraries...so I just associated it with "other". wt -- Warren Turkal Pre

Re: Exporting sched_yield to the drivers

2003-09-25 Thread Emmanuel Allaud
Mark Vojkovich wrote: Can we at least agree to export an xf86Yield() function? It will be sched_yield() on whatever plaforms support it, a noop on others. If somebody comes up with something better to implement it with, then great. I have no voice on that but still : I think this would abs

simple patch for certain configs

2003-09-25 Thread Warren Turkal
Here is a patch from the Debian packages that fixes certain build configs. $Id: 017_fix_Xlib_depend_target.diff 586 2003-09-25 19:31:35Z branden $ This patch by Ishikawa MUTSUMI. Fixes build failure due to missing depend target in Xlib's Imakefile if "BuildServersOnly" is YES, "BuildXnestServer"

Re: Exporting sched_yield to the drivers

2003-09-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Can we at least agree to export an xf86Yield() function? It will be sched_yield() on whatever plaforms support it, a noop on others. If somebody comes up with something better to implement it with, then great. Mark. ___ De

Re: sched_yield <> futexes

2003-09-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
I don't see how we could use them either. They are a solution for a different problem. Mark. On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Emmanuel Allaud wrote: > /I did not have news from my request on linux-kernel, but I came across > this interview of Rusty Russel where he talks about fu

Re: sched_yield <> futexes

2003-09-25 Thread Emmanuel Allaud
Peter "Firefly" Lund wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: you might check to make sure your message made it to the list. I've posted some questions on linux-kernel and they never got through. It did. I saw it in one of the web archives. Yes I just checked. I sent a copy to

Re: sched_yield <> futexes

2003-09-25 Thread Emmanuel Allaud
Alex Deucher wrote: you might check to make sure your message made it to the list. I've posted some questions on linux-kernel and they never got through. Ah, OK I'll check then (moreover I'm being flooded with stupid virus mails, so I hope I did not delete anything important :( ). Bye Manu

Re: sched_yield <> futexes

2003-09-25 Thread Peter \"Firefly\" Lund
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: > you might check to make sure your message made it to the list. I've > posted some questions on linux-kernel and they never got through. It did. I saw it in one of the web archives. -Peter ___ Devel mailing l

Re: sched_yield <> futexes

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Deucher
you might check to make sure your message made it to the list. I've posted some questions on linux-kernel and they never got through. Alex --- Emmanuel Allaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /I did not have news from my request on linux-kernel, but I came > across > this interview of Rusty Russel

Re: Wrong order of a timeouts processing in WaitForSomething.

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Deucher
This is somewhat off topic, but as I recall someone posted a patch to use the linux event input interface to support hotplugging in xfree86. it may be of use with what you are looking at now...or not. Alex --- Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JG> So I'd just open the device and se

Re: Wrong order of a timeouts processing in WaitForSomething.

2003-09-25 Thread Keith Packard
Around 20 o'clock on Sep 25, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > JG> So you still have to do a select/poll, read all pending input > JG> events on all different devices, and merge the events in the > JG> server into a single stream in time stamp order. > > Can that happen in dix, or should it be below?

Re: Wrong order of a timeouts processing in WaitForSomething.

2003-09-25 Thread Keith Packard
Around 20 o'clock on Sep 25, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > JG> So you still have to do a select/poll, read all pending input > JG> events on all different devices, and merge the events in the > JG> server into a single stream in time stamp order. > > Can that happen in dix, or should it be below?

Re: Wrong order of a timeouts processing in WaitForSomething.

2003-09-25 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
JG> So I'd just open the device and see if PS/2 mice work at this date. PS/2 mice and AT keyboards most definetily do work with the event interface, at least since 2.5.73 (the first 2.5 kernel I tested[1]). They do not work in current 2.4, where the event interface is for USB peripherals only. JG

sched_yield <> futexes

2003-09-25 Thread Emmanuel Allaud
/I did not have news from my request on linux-kernel, but I came across this interview of Rusty Russel where he talks about futexes (URL : http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/892) : / / - / /Rusty Russell/: OK, a futex ("Fast Userspace Mutex") isn't a mutex at all. It was in a (much) earlie

Re: Exporting sched_yield to the drivers

2003-09-25 Thread Egbert Eich
Jim Gettys writes: > Most operating schedulers are much happier to give you the CPU > again if you don't monopolize the CPU, and let the other processes > get the CPU regularly. Generally, they boost the priority > of processes that just use a short amount of CPU, and then > give it back. >