Fixes for X on PowerPC

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/19/14 12:56, Joe Nosay wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn 
> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org <mailto:nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>> wrote:
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>     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
>     <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Enwhitehorn/new_xorg_ppc.diff>
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>     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.
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>     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?

Yes.
-Nathan