Subject: Re: CVS commit: xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/Xserver
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/08/2005 21:55:54
Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> writes:

> In article <mtuvfa7fxpz.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
> nathanw@wasabisystems.com wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps Xhpc and Xdreamcast should migrate to using an XF864-style
> > server with the wsfb driver (I brought in wsfb exactly to avoid making
> > another clone of Xdreamcast for an embedded box). It would be a bit
> > easier if we only have to maintain one "dumb framebuffer" server, and
> > the shadow-fb use of wsfb is good for performance - and it's nice to
> > have the other XF864 options and X extentions avaliable on those
> > platforms.
> 
> Which port uses wsfb driver currently?

All ports that build XF86 4 should build the wsfb driver. Looking at
src/x11/Xserver/Makefile.common, I believe that is i386, amd64,
macppc, cats, and sgimips. Of those, I think i386, amd64, and cats are
ineligible to use wsfb (since their VGA interfaces do not present a
single memory-mappable framebuffer), but macppc could use it instead
of Xmacppc. I do not know what the framebuffer situation is on
sgimips.

        - Nathan