Re: X11R7 Xserver for x68k

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:26:07PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:06:10 +1100
> matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > > Last weekend I've managed to port old xfree X68k Xserver to X11R7.
> > > 
> > > x68k port has not been wscons'fied (yet), so I just copied
> > > old style xsrc/xfree/xc/program/Xserver/hw/netbsd/x68k server
> > > sources to xsrc/external/mit/xorg-server/dist/hw/netbsd/x68k
> > > and put minimum changes (for Xorg API changes) to build
> > > a 'monolithic' Xserver binary like Xnest and Xvfb.
> > > Patch is here (can be applied both HEAD and netbsd-6):
> > > https://gist.github.com/tsutsui/9167958
> > 
> > while not perfect, this sounds pretty good!  if someone gets
> > really interested, they can write the xf86-video-$driver for
> > it, but this is a big step forward.
> 
> On this kind of hardware it's probably better to leave all that
> hw/xfree86 goop out and have a small monolithic xserver.

Time to port sunview

        David

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