[CFT] Xorg 7.7 ready for testing!

[Luca Pizzamiglio]

Hi!

I've some trouble to compile the x11/libXxf86dga port.
I attached a patch that could solve the problem, but it needs a review.
Someone could help me to identify the problem?

Thanks in advance

Luca


On 06/07/12 14:37, Martin Wilke wrote:
> Hi Fans,
>
> The FreeBSD Xorg Team is pleased to announce Xorg 7.7 Release. We are
> very happy to be able to Call for testing shortly after the Xorg team
> annouced 7.7 release. This CFT is also open for discussion on how we
> should move forward with xorg release as we are facing some issues and
> we would like to ask for your opinion. Right now we have 2 existing
> xorg versions in our Ports Tree. The situation is quite bad due to our
> poor graphic card support. That means we do not have much choice but to
> take it as how it is now. But with regards to mesa support, we have to
> face some new challanges.
>
> With the new mesa 8.0 release, accelerated support for a number of
> older graphic cards was dropped. At the moment we are not sure how to
> deal with that.We are thinking of just replacing mesa 7.11 with 8.0 or
> making a new flag like WITH_MESA= 7.11.2 / 8.0 in combination with
> WITH_NEW_XORG, and let the mesa 7.6.1 set as default together with the
> old xorg version. Obviosly the latter option make the already complex
> situation more complex. The problem is, users, especially  the new ones
> can easily get confused with it. Another issue is, the packages.We
> can't deliver a package set with the new Xorg releases. This means
> users with new hardware will have to compile everything by themselves.
> Though I'm totally fine with compiling, not everyone has the CPU power
> to compile everything. What I'm trying to say is, I would love to see
> the newer xorg released as the default version, but i know this will
> break a lot of old hardware. The thing is, when we want to try to
> become a Modern Operating System, I dont see any other way to make the
> new xorg as default but to give Users the chance to compile the old
> xorg with a flag like WITH_OLD_XORG.
>
> Some notes regarding KMS support:
> KMS Support has been completely migrated to FreeBSD 10. The MFC to 9
> will come soon, that means so long its not MFC'd to 9-Stable, users
> need to get the latest patch from our x11 mailing list.
>
> This testing includes
> * libdrm 2.4.34 (including KMS support)
> * mesa 8.0.3
> * full Xorg 7.7 release Change log
>    http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/changelog.html
>
> Checkout Xorg Development Repo:
> You will need to install devel/subversion in order to checkout the xorg
> repo. Next, you will need to add WITH_NEW_XORG=yes in
> your /etc/make.conf if you want to try out the new Xorg and mesa. Note
> that if you are not qualified for the KMS patch, you shouldn’t use
> WITH_NEW_XORG=yes because the old intel driver doesn’t build with the
> new X server. If you are qualified, you should also set WITH_KMS=yes
> in /etc/make.conf. Nvidia and ATI users should set WITH_NEW_XORG=yes.
>
> svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/trunk
>
> A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree
> can be found here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge
>
> The script is a modified version of the old kdemerge script. Please set
> the KDEDIR variable to the path of your X.org ports. After merging, run
> one of the following command, depending on which tool you use to manage
> your installed packages.
>
> portupgrade -af \*
> portmaster -a
>
>
> After installing these, you will have to rebuild all xf86-* ports. We
> will bump all releated ports during the commit to the ports tree.
>
> Roadmap:
> Our current plan is to let the CFT running for a while, and see what
> the outcome of the discussion above is. We hope to get a lot of
> feedback to solve as many problems as possible. Also we are working on
> the libglut to freeglut migration, this will definitely complete before
> we import Xorg 7.7. So we still have enough time.  We are looking
> forward for your feedback.
>
> - miwi on behalf of the FreeBSD X11 Team
>
> PS: Please reply only to x11@ thanks.
>


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--- src/XF86DGA2.c.orig	2012-06-15 12:21:51.000000000 +0200
+++ src/XF86DGA2.c	2012-06-15 12:23:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@
     if ((pMap->fd = open(name, O_RDWR)) < 0)
 	return False;
     pMap->virtual = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-			MAP_FILE | MAP_SHARED, pMap->fd, (off_t)base);
+			MAP_FILE | MAP_SHARED, pMap->fd, (off_t)*base);
     if (pMap->virtual == (void *)-1)
 	return False;
     mprotect(pMap->virtual, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE);