Re: CVS commit: src

[cgd%netbsd.org@localhost (Chris G. Demetriou)]

Ross Harvey <ross%ghs.com@localhost> writes:
> Right, that's what I figured, and since...
> 
>     * -E1 X is working again
>     * we seem to have mostly multia users (poor guys :-)
>     * the -E2 card is almost working
>     * the X server is being accelerated
>     * i'll be working on VGA X server stuff soon

Uh, 'INSECURE' is only an issue for the latter; the former should work
fine without INSECURE, because it can use a reasonable device
interface.


>     ... it seemed like it would be nice if X worked `out of the box'
>     on alpha too. We will have 1.4 users for A LONG TIME, and I was kind
>     of planning on building X against 1.4 in the coming year if we made
>     worthwhile enhancements that didn't require kernel mods.

Uh, one sysctl in rc.local would have the same effect as 'options
INSECURE', for the class of people who need it.


>     * the damn thing _is_ hardwired at compile-time for I/O port 60,
>       you know .. and the match routine just checks that and bails if
>       you try to do anything else. There is some partially written and
>       certainly never-successfully-tested code to operate an aux port
>       keyboard, but even that must be hardwired in the config file or
>       it bails. (And I think you can't have both.)

Can you have multiple ISA/EISA busses in an Alpha?  That means that
there're multiple "I/O port 60"s, eh?


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