Fixes for X on PowerPC

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sat Feb 1 00:25:36 UTC 2014


On 01/22/14 10:07, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 01/19/14 18:12, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> I was just bootstrapping a new (to me) laptop and ran into some minor
>> difficulties getting X running. They can be fixed with the patch at
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/new_xorg_ppc.diff
>>
>> It has the following parts:
>> 1. plist fix for graphics/libdrm (the Intel driver is only built on x86
>> platforms)
> This is being worked on, together with at least making ia64 work as
> well, possibly other architectures as well.  Neither kwm nor me (the two
> of us who does the heavy lifting) has access to anything other than x86
> and x86_64, so it's slightly slow going.
>
>> 2. only apply MMX/SSE2 flags in configure on platforms that have MMX and
>> SSE2 for x11/pixman to avoid errors from configure
> Why is this needed?  Shouldn't ${MACHINE_CPU:Mmmx} and
> ${MACHINE_CPU:Msse2} be undefined for CPUs (including ppc) that don't
> have mmx or sse2?  This should prevent mmx and sse2 from being used at
> all.  Or am I misunderstanding the issue here?
> Regards!

Any news on these? It would be nice to get X working on PPC again. I'm
perfectly happy to commit any or all of these myself if a ports
committer will give approval.
-Nathan


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