On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:11:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > E.g. for Amiga native graphics, the main issue is that current xorg > > > > doesn't support bitplanes (AFAIK). The same is true for Atari. > > > > > > what's the alternative if there's no kernel framebuffer? > > > > If there's no kernel frame buffer, you won't have a console on > > Linux/m68k. So you first want to write a frame buffer device. > > Which we did, long time ago :-) > > Still, this means the real old X server (the one that still has bitplanes > support builtin) should run on the new kernel, unless we dropped some > frame buffer device syscalls in the process. I do not remember writing any > frame buffer memset or memcpy calls when porting the Atari driver (at > least nothing that would have been exposed to user space). Is that > automagically taken care of by common code? > > Anyway, looks like I have to bite the bullet and try to bring the Falcon > to 2.6 as well ... which version of the X server did last have Atari and > Amiga support? > > Michael > >
I have 6.21 and 6.22 on the hfs partition and can boot using either. Will let you know if xfree/startx still works. -- I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. Viktor E. Frankl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
