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Subject:    [gentoo-sparc] Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.904 (fwd)
From:       Ferris McCormick <fmccor () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2005-02-03 13:18:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0502031316450.6533 () lacewing ! inforead ! com
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I thought I had CC'd sparc people on this.  Since
I am asking for thoughts concerning {sunffb, xaa, drm},
I really need to see that the people I am asking get
to read the question.

Regards,
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc)

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:52:25 +0000 (UTC)
From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>
To: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.1.904

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> I just added it, only keyworded ~x86 because .903 was only ~x86 ~ppc64, and
> ppc64 folks didn't request that I retain their keywords when I asked a 
> while
> back on -dev.
> 
> Those of you who like your Gentoo hot and fresh will be glad to hear that
> 6.8.1.904 is in the tree just about four hours after it was posted to the
> freedesktop.org Web site.
> 
> If other arch folks would like, I'll gladly file a test-request bug. This
> will probably be the last RC before the 6.8.2 release. Also, please let me
> know whether you need any patches added for 6.8.2 -- especially SPARC 
> people.
> 
> Again, it's got the migration from /usr/X11R6 to /usr. It still works great
> for me and it should work well for most people, after Ferris McCormick and 
> I
> tracked down a few annoying problems.
> 
I'll start on it as soon as today's crop of upgrades get taken care of and
a huge (non-Gentoo) build completes.  If it works for me, I'll add ~sparc
to it.

The only patch I'm aware of that sparc might want but might not be present
is the 092_Xserver_sunffb_xaa_extension.diff which is said to be in
freedesktop's CVS but as of yesterday, not in released version.

This requires some feedback and advice from the sparc user base because:
1. sunffb definitely works better in general with it applied;
2. It disables DRM for Creator (ffb) graphics cards;
3. But we recently discovered a pretty bad (kernel related) problem with
  ffb+DRM if you happen to have two Creator cards present (unusual but
  certainly allowed.  I'd have caught it much earlier, except that my
  system with two graphics cards has Creator+Elite.  So, both are using
  sunffb, but only one of them uses DRM.)

> In addition to the upstream stuff, I also added a patch for a BIOSHotkeys
> option to the radeon driver, which re-enables things like Fn+F7 (Read bug
> #79033) and a patch to fix some unresolved cfb* symbols when running X
> -configure or xorgcfg (bug #79497).
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Thanks,
> Donnie

More information to follow, CPU speed dependent.
Regards,

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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc)
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