> Xorg has no problem loading new drivers at runtime, without > recompiling. When using PCI vendor id to autoselect a driver, > you'll need an xorg.conf to tell Xorg which driver to load when > it's not in the builtin list. For SPARC, where /dev/fb mapping > is mainly used for selecting a fb driver, you can either provide > an xorg.conf or name the driver such that it matches the automatic > pattern matching for kernel driver name (reported by constype) to > Xorg driver name. > > Martin's previous work required replacing the X server because of > other changes which he hasn't requested integrating into the Xorg > server sources either at X.Org upstream or OpenSolaris. I don't > know how many of those are still relevant in the current Xorg server. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Replacing the server would currently be necessary for 2 basic reasons: * re-enabling SBus/UPA bus scanning support (Creator/Creator3D/Elite3D) * using libpciaccess for pci scanning (I wasted 5 days on getting libpciaccess to function, the best I can currently follows below) SBus is stable and would be ready for going upstream any minute. libpciaccess will be covered in my next novel. <<Xorg.0.log (application/octet-stream) 6K>> %martin
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