Branden Robinson wrote: >On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:09:51PM +0000, 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
