On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:59:11AM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:00:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:59:03AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > I think what you propose is a good solution. I suppose 4.0.1 will be > > > woody's > > > primary X server, will it not ? > > > > I expect it to be widely used, especially by people with recent hardware. > > > > Some of the 3.x series X servers will continue to be provided to support > > hardware that 4.0 doesn't yet. The package names and filenames names do > > not overlap, so /etc/X11/Xserver will continue to be used as we have for > > years. The 3.x servers should work fine with the 4.x series clients and > > libraries, though of course those servers are missing the features that are > > receiving so much attention in 4.0. That will include the enhanced font > > support; users of 3.x server may want to look into using the 4.x version of > > xfs. > Ok, I am not an xfree86 developer, I have to ask the m68k question. AFAIK > the xfree drivers for m68k are by far not ready, or only a handful yet. With > this we (m68k) could install xfree4.0 libraries and run the 3.3.6 servers?
I remember running XF4 on top of amifb way back in the 3.9.16 days, i suppose this will work nicely on m68k also, if you can build the kernel. > Fine, but what if the 4.0 libraries can not be built on m68k (I would not > wonder if), will the 3.3.6 libaries be still around for us? Did you try it ? best guess would be to try it out, and report any problem so they can get fixed. I would do it but have no space on my apus box for a m68k system. maybe i will erase my apus system after the potato release and let the box build XF4 for me. How long do you think i would need to build XF4 on a 25MHz 68040 ? > Will the complete packages of 3.3.6 and 4.0+ exist in parallel, for those > with m68k and other not so recent hardware (like my mach64)? Might not be mach64 should be supported under XF4, or will soonely, i think, anyway, you could always run the fbdev Xserver without accels. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
