On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:57 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:00:07AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:02:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > XSF, can we switch to using dlloader on alpha? Pleeaaaase? :) > > > > It does not make sense to do this for one architecture only. > > > > I'd suggest that until we move to dlloader wholesale, alpha joins hppa, > > mips*, m68k, sh*, etc in using a static-only server. > > Are there any serious plans from upstream to move to dlloader after the > modularization effort is done?
X.org HEAD was switched to build dlloader by default a while ago, so it'll be like that in 6.9/7.0. That said, I don't know if or how well dlloader works on all the architectures, but I'd expect it to be more portable than elfloader. Regards from DDC/OLS, -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
