Fixes for X on PowerPC

[Joe Nosay]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>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)
> 2. only apply MMX/SSE2 flags in configure on platforms that have MMX and
> SSE2 for x11/pixman to avoid errors from configure
> 3. Use old ATI driver on platforms without KMS (for now, everything but
> x86)
> 4. Fix error in xorg-server makefile EXTRA_PATCHES where some
> platform-specific patches would replace rather than add to the patches list.
>
> The only even vaguely substantive change is the last patch:
> 5. xf86EnableIO() and xf86OpenConsole() no longer seem to be called in the
> same order, with the result that xf86Info.consoleFd hasn't been set yet
> when xf86EnableIO() is called. I've copied what Linux does here and used
> /dev/mem instead, as well as copying Linux in making errors there
> non-fatal. Incidentally, the xf86EnableIO() implementation is one of the
> shadiest and most questionable things I have ever seen. I really doubt it
> does whatever it is meant to do correctly, but it at least does the same
> thing old Xorg did now.
> -Nathan
>
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That's great. Will it also work for the desktop cards?