RE: xvfb not built on vax and x68k?

["Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon%worldnet.att.net@localhost>]

Hello   !
Go ahead and laugh everyone but.....
I seem to recall that only the workstation family of Vaxen, such as those
individual VAX stations that were used as development stations by developers
had framebuffers.

Typically the population of Vaxes such as the crowd who made up the
datacenter at UCB didn't have a need for something such as that as BSD
started out life.

That is we could be splitting hairs here. 

An individual whose name I don't recall created and then worked in
framebuffer support for them during either the 1.6 or 2.0 lifetime of the
operating system. Or perhaps the 1.5 series, I could be wrong regarding the
timeperiod.

And as for the x68k family, ah, you've got me there.

(Note I am keeping this only on the regular NetBSD-VAX list simply because
it's more relevant there then elsewhere.) 
--
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon%worldnet.att.net@localhost
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost 
> [mailto:port-vax-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost] On
Behalf Of
> Johnny Billquist
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:37 PM
> To: David Brownlee
> Cc: Patrick Finnegan; Brad Parker; tech-x11%netbsd.org@localhost;
port-vax%netbsd.org@localhost; port-
> x68k%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: xvfb not built on vax and x68k?
> 
> 
> 
> David Brownlee wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> >
> >> On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Brad Parker wrote:
> >>> David Brownlee wrote:
> >>>>     any
> >>>>     objections to making those two ports consistent with all
> >>>>     the others so all NetBSD ports build the Xvfb virtual
> >>>>     framebuffer X server?
> >>>
> >>> If it balloons out the build times I'd prefer not, at least on the
> >>> vax port.  None of the vaxen I use have frame buffers.
> >>
> >> Well, I think the point of xvfb is that it doesn't require or use a
> >> framebuffer in the machine.
> >
> >     Yup, exactly. The relative additional time for a build with
> >     and without xvb is going to be marginal - if you want to
> >     save build time you should skip building X11 altogether,
> >     or crossbuild from a faster box. Given that x68k is going
> >     to have xvfb added that would leave vax as the odd port
> >     out.
> 
> You are aware that "marginal" might very well mean days here?
> 
>       Johnny
> 
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