Subject: Re: X.org vs. XFree86 going forward
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 09/28/2004 20:08:56
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, David Hopper wrote:
>
>> One of the big issues I have as an end-user is the state of non-x86
>> platforms.  I haven't gotten a sense of the number of developers in
>> each camp (Xorg / XFree86) that might be focused on older architectures
>> or slightly different bus topologies for which we have nascent or
>> robust X11 code in our tree (like Alpha, Mac PPC, Amiga, etc.).
>>
>> Do you have any sense that Xorg the way to go for alternate platforms,
>> as well?
>
> http://wiki.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgReleaseStatus shows that they had
> testers for various platforms: IA-32, Alpha, AMD64/EM64T, Sparc64, HP
> PA-RISC, ARM, IA-64, PPC, PPC64, MIPS, S/390, Sparc. (Only M68k was listed
> but didn't have a tester.)
>
> That webpage is incomplete, because it didn't indicate who gave back
> results, but at least it did show some names of those who indicated they'd
> do tests.
>
> Note that NetBSD had no volunteers. (Although I did setup a NetBSD
> tinderbox for daily builds for them for a few weeks.)

 	Maybe we should post the above to advocacy- to see if we can
 	poke mre people into volunteering?

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