Subject: Re: patches for arm x loader diff
To: Tyler Retzlaff <rtr@twentynine.org>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
List: tech-x11
Date: 03/22/2004 01:30:34
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:18:05 +1100
Tyler Retzlaff <rtr@twentynine.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:33, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > Could someone take a look at the attached.
> >
> > It's not very exciting, but seems to get the loading to find all the
> > symbols for the nv driver, I suspect it won't work for non -current,
> > where we're using softfloat.
> >
> > But then native xsrc builds don't do the loader for cats anyway.
> >
> > Even with these changes, something else breaks inside vgahw, but I'd
> > like to get these changes in soon.
> 
> Not claiming to know anything about arm but is -larm only needed for
> XFree86 that use the x11 loader?

Yes, as only the x11 loader makes use of the icache sync functions on
ARM, using statically linked drivers the addresses etc are already
correct, so no need to sync the icache when loading in symbols.

Chris