Subject: Re: X11 R6 public fix 11 contains NetBSD/SPARC support
To: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
From: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/09/1995 19:45:47
> 
> Just in case this isn't common knowledge ...
> 
> For reasons known only to G*d, the XFree86 people picked up most of Dennis
> Ferguson's NetBSD/SPARC patches for R6, so as a result because the XFree86
> folks are members of the X Consortium, they've now become officially part of
> the distribution.
> 
> I haven't tried to build a pl 11 tree yet - still looking over all these new
> fixes (fix-07 through fix-11; mainly in fix-11) and it seems like there may
> be a few bits missing that slipped through the cracks.  But nonetheless, this
> is great news.  Kudos to Dennis and to the XFree86 folks.
> 

We (the XFree86 team) tried to get as much NetBSD (as well as other O/S's)
stuff in for this mega-patch from the XC.  I have to admit that any SPARC
stuff that made it in was due to related patches to the X86 stuff.

robin (XFree86 core team)