Subject: Re: 3gx X NetBSD effort: BUGO Labs
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/30/1999 23:08:01
> The p9100 also has an XFree86 driver, IIRC, so info is available there,
> too.

Yep. I've already sent what I found to James Garnett (the guy in Boulder, CO
who has an attachment for the 3gx modem giving probe messages already):

The tadpole Xsun expects to see a /dev/weitek0, check out
	ftp://ftp.tadpole.com/pub/sbu/X11R5/README

Note that XFree86 supports the p9000 already but requires the aperture driver
to be used, check out

	http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/P9000.html

Item 4 on this page mentions that p9100 support is present in the SVGA server,
but I have no idea how much trouble it will be to get the SVGA server to cope
with the non-VGA-card SparcBook memory map.

Also, there's some question as to whether it will be easier to get XFree86 4.0
or NetBSD-current/xsrc building on the sparc. I know XFree is trying to reduce
i386 dependencies, but haven't heard any hard data as to how much of a problem
this really is in practice for people trying to build stuff on non-i386's...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com