On Sam, 2002-08-31 at 19:24, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:
> >> Hmm, I understand the problem.
> >>
> >> radeon_drv and r128_drv require some vga related functions, defined
> >> in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/vgahw/vgaHW.{c,h}. But on SPARC
> >> environment vgaHW.c will not build because SPARC machines does not
> >> have VGA, so XF86VgaHw is set as NO.
> >>
> >> Under build-tree/xc-xserver-xfree86-dbg, we will build the static
> >> linked x server. Symbols are resolved on build time.
> >>
> >> Perhaps, we should drop r128 and radeon driver support when the x
> >> server build without XF86VgaHw define.
> >> (or r128 and radeon drivers should update to be able to build and run
> >> without vgaHW).
>
> I put a patch to build fix on SPARC and new MANIFEST.sparc.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~ishikawa/XFree86/4.2.0-0pre1v3/sparc/101_sparc_ati_without_vgahw.diff
This is a bad patch IMHO. Almost every driver uses vgaHW, how are the
others handled on sparc?
I see a number of better solutions:
- guard the vgaHW calls in the drivers
- build/fix/implement vgaHW on sparc (no, it doesn't require legacy
hardware)
- ...
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