Chris G Demetriou wrote:
> The former set of diffs should be cleaned up and made more complete

The Xfree86 beta source might as well track NetBSD as last
released (i.e. 1.2).

> (e.g. to deal with shared libraries, which are actually coming soon,
> thankfully 8-), and shipped off to the Xfree86 folks.  Unless you'd
> like to do this (you might be bored, or something 8-), i'll get to it
> sooner or later.

I *did* get bored. That was why I asked! 8-)

> 
> > Now that there are a few Linux/Alpha X servers, it shouldn't take
> > too much to make those servers work on NetBSD/Alpha should it?
> 
> Maybe, maybe not; i'm not entirely sure.  However, before that can
> sanely happen, the console interface needs to be drastically cleaned
> up, and there needs to be some support added to the VGA drivers, etc.,
> so they export information about what memory and I/O regions can be
> used, etc., to the X server.
> 
> I've actually started working on this (some of you may have noticed me
> hacking on that code, in a branch, if you read source changes), but
> it's still got a fair bit of work to go before it can really be used.

Always a hurdle. Duh.

> 
> 
> 
> chris
> 


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