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Subject: Re: Building a driver module for older versions of xorg?
From: Michael Dales <mwd () ndiyo ! org>
Date: 2007-05-29 13:42:23
Message-ID: B5ECE7EB-53AD-4810-8A2A-B911654972F4 () ndiyo ! org
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Hi there,
I've been very kindly helped by MrCopper on the xorg-devel IRC
channel and I now have the driver built on Feisty by adding the
xserver-xorg-dev package.
I definitely appreciate the new modular Xorg system now :)
-- Michael
On 29 May 2007, at 12:12, Michael Dales wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've managed to build a simple device driver by checking out the
> latest xorg tree which I got as per the instructions here:
>
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide
>
> This all worked fine, and I build a full X setup and then built my
> driver, and it all works with that server.
>
> Now I want to give my driver to people to test, but they're running
> Ubuntu Edgy or Feisty, and they ship with an older version of the
> xorg server. In particular, the ABI version has changed - in the
> tree I built the driver ABI is specified in xf86Module.h as 2.0,
> but I need to generate something compatible with ABI version 1.0 or
> 1.1.
>
> My questions is what's the best way to achieve that?
>
> I've tried, unsuccessfully so far, to get an older version of the
> xorg tree. I did a git checkout of the current tree using the
> method described on ModularDevelopersGuide, and then reverted to
> the tag XORG-7_1 using "git checkout -b temp XORG-7_1" - this gave
> me something that was indeed older, but it fails to build, failing
> in libXfonts due to FreeType problems outlined in http://
> www.nabble.com/ftfuncs.c-t2125603.html
>
> I'm assuing that somewhere/somehow I can get a 7.1 tree that
> builds, but I'm not trying the correct technique?
>
> Any advice greatly appreciated.
>
> -- Michael
>
> Ndiyo Ltd. - http://www.ndiyo.org/
>
>
>
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on the xorg-devel IRC channel and I now have the driver built on Feisty by adding the \
xserver-xorg-dev package.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I \
definitely appreciate the new modular Xorg system now :)</DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- Michael</DIV><BR \
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at 12:12, Michael Dales wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE \
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Hi there,</DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've managed to build a simple device \
driver by checking out the latest xorg tree which I got as per the instructions \
here:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A \
href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide">http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide</A></DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This all worked fine, and I build a full X \
setup and then built my driver, and it all works with that server.</DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now I want to give my driver to people to \
test, but they're running Ubuntu Edgy or Feisty, and they ship with an older version \
of the xorg server. In particular, the ABI version has changed - in the tree I built \
the driver ABI is specified in xf86Module.h as 2.0, but I need to generate something \
compatible with ABI version 1.0 or 1.1.</DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My questions is what's the best way to \
achieve that?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've tried, \
unsuccessfully so far, to get an older version of the xorg tree. I did a git checkout \
of the current tree using the method described on ModularDevelopersGuide, and then \
reverted to the tag XORG-7_1 using "git checkout -b temp XORG-7_1" - this gave me \
something that was indeed older, but it fails to build, failing in libXfonts due to \
FreeType problems outlined in <A \
href="http://www.nabble.com/ftfuncs.c-t2125603.html">http://www.nabble.com/ftfuncs.c-t2125603.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm assuing that somewhere/somehow I can \
get a 7.1 tree that builds, but I'm not trying the correct technique?</DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any advice greatly \
appreciated.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- \
Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ndiyo Ltd. - <A \
href="http://www.ndiyo.org">http://www.ndiyo.org</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR \
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR \
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