Re: X server support?

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> On 17-Sep-2008 Michael Lorenz wrote:
> > That's a known problem, Magnus Henoch posted a workaround on port-
> > macppc a while ago ( it 's a hack in ld.so_elf / rtld.c and avoids
> > using __builtin_return_addr(0) which occasionally returns bogus on
> > powerpc, so far xorg's module loader is the only known program that
> > triggers it. I'm not aware of a similar problem on any other CPU
> > architecture though.
>
> I think we should commit this hack, along with all the other hacks  
> we have
> lying about that are required to get X working.  Note them in doc/ 
> HACKS or
> whatever, but not having X is annoying.

Ok, I'll do that as soon as I get around to do it.
( we just moved, things are a little bit on the chaotic side )

> (Wasn't the other one an additional syncicache that needed to be  
> added somewhere?  Commit that one too.)

That problem disappeared a while ago, no idea why.

have fun
Michael

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