Re: xorg for alpha: it's there !

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:22:03 +0100
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> I got our in-tree xorg to work properly on alpha. I tested the
> glint, mga, s3, s3virge, tga and vga drivers on both PWS500 (ev56, non-BWX)
> and XP1000 (ev6, BWX) platforms. All of them works as expected, and
> X -configure is working too. Some of them needs Int10 to be disabled,
> I think because xorg's PC emulator is incomplete (it complains about
> non-implemented instructions when running the adapter's BIOS).
> 
> There a 2 attached patches for this: the first one adds alpha support
> to our Makefiles, sets lists, etc ...
> The second one fixes 3 issues in the xorg distrib:

Nice! Those three patches should allow pkgsrc's modular-xorg-server to
work too, I guess. (I used to have it working with the 1.3 server.)
Does anyone know if the CS20 is able to boot with a VGA card and USB
host controller installed?

-Tobias