Re: xorg for alpha: it's there !

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:53:07AM -0700, David Hopper wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:22 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >I got our in-tree xorg to work properly on alpha.
> [...]
> 
> Manuel, this is terrific.  I've got a PWS600au with a Radeon that runs  
> XFree86, so I'm fairly certain it will work there.  One corner case to  
> getting the same code working across my Alphas was in accessing the  
> multiple PCI busses in a 1200 (aka 'tincup') Alphaserver.  It's been  
> years since I've tried-- I'll have to give that a go to see if it  
> properly gets past the issues with multiple hoses.

All the tests I've done were with video adapters in bus 0;
though both the PWS500 and the XP1000 have 2 accessible hoses.
But the SRM refuse to boot if there's a video adapter plugged
in the second bus ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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