> From: David Hopper <dhop@globalesi.com>
>
> Please forgive my ignorance of all things platform-independent, but 
> what would it take to implement an SVGA server for NetBSD-Alpha?  If 
> Xfree86 claims to have Alpha binaries already, to what platform are 
> they referring?  Linux?  FreeBSD?  (the statement in question is in 
> the release notes at 
> ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/RELNOTES)
>
> Is it a simple recompile?  I know the answer is 'no', or someone would 
> have done this three years ago...
>
> Dave


A fine question, and one that was extensively discussed here just a few
weeks ago in mid-October. See:

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/1999/10/

A couple of people volunteered to work on it, perhaps they could respond
with more detail???