re: Migrating ports from XFree86 to Xorg (Was: Changing default X11_TYPE from native to modular for some platforms)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

could someone bring us tech-x11 folks up to speed on what this
thread started about?  (the subject has some clues.. but it'd
be best to be clear.)

thanks.

> On 19 September 2011 08:43, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 07:49:04PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> >> Would you happen to know what ports are still using XFree86 in current?
> >
> > On netbsd-5 look at src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk:
> >
> > #
> > # Do we default to XFree86 or Xorg for this platform?
> > #
> > .if ${MACHINE} == "amd64" || ${MACHINE} == "i386" || \
> > Â  Â ${MACHINE} == "macppc" || ${MACHINE} == "sgimips" || \
> > Â  Â ${MACHINE} == "shark" || ${MACHINE} == "sparc64"
> > X11FLAVOUR?= Â  Â Xorg
> > .else
> > X11FLAVOUR?= Â  Â XFree86
> > .endif
> 
> Thats a lot of XFree86 users. If I recall correctly all of the ports
> which do not build Xservers have subsequently been switched to Xorg.
> 
> On current the test is inverted and:
> 
> .if \
>     ${MACHINE} == "acorn32"     || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "alpha"       || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "amiga"       || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "ews4800mips" || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "mac68k"      || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "newsmips"    || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "pmax"        || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "sun3"        || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "x68k"
> X11FLAVOUR?=    XFree86
> .else
> X11FLAVOUR?=    Xorg
> .endif
> 
> Is anyone working on moving any of the remaining XFree86 using ports to Xorg?

i think tsutsui has ews4800mips and newsmips support either
working or in the works.

alpha xorg doesn't work for tga cards, and there is no support
for the turbochannel cards.  (someone send a pmax to mac ;)

i'm not really aware of anyone else who cares about these X
servers.  probably we should remove them after netbsd-6 is
branched (and the whole xfree tree itself.)


.mrg.