On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:37:00AM +0200, Emiliano wrote: > > Alle 21:34, marted� 11 ottobre 2005, Kars de Jong ha scritto: > > > You have a 68060, and I believe the module loader in X (XFree86 or Xorg) > > > still doesn't do cache flushing, which will cause the '060 with its 8k > > > instruction cache to fail. With other CPUs (especially a '030) things > > > usually work fine even without the cache flushes because its cache gets > > > flushed all the time anyway, and the cache is tiny anyway. > > > > Thanks for your explanation. Is there some way to turn the cache > > (temporarily) > > off? > > there are better workarounds;) > - compile monolithic X server without modules, I have done > that and it works perfectly on 68060. For a production machine > a monolithic X server is in many cases preferable to module > loading anyway. > > - fix module loading. Adding some cacheflush calls is really > easy once you know where to put them..
Or use dlopen(). I hate it if X wants to reimplement functionality instead of using what's available (speaking about dynamic linking of modules, messing with PCI, ...). > > > On my HP300 (with a '040) it manages to start X about once every ten > > > times. > > > > > Plus it's a pain to compile X. > > > > May I help with this issue? I used to be an amiga coder, I also know basics > > about linux programming on x86, so maybe I can give it a look... > > > > The best thing would be a VM inside a fast linux box, or even a > > cross-compiler > > on the x86. > > one interesting way to speedup compiling is distcc. > http://distcc.samba.org/ > > The setup is somewhat simpler than what you would have to do > for a full crosscompiler, it is also slower as preprocessing > and configure/make runs on the 680x0. And ccache also helps. Never compile the same file twice ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
