Re: Alpha Turbochannel display adaptors and Xorg 1.20

On 12/4/21 5:36 PM, David Brownlee wrote:
> Alpha is one of the few ports stuck back on Xorg 1.10 rather than
> 1.20, as I understand primarily to continue to provide X servers for
> turbo channel display adaptors (please someone sing out if I'm
> mistaken in that)
> 
> I'm just in the process of the minor tweaks needed to get port-pmax
> able to run generic Xwsfb X servers for at least cfb (and likely the
> other supported tc PMAG adaptors).
> 
> Would anyone have turbochannel Aplha hardware to hand and be
> interested in testing a current kernel & x binaries to see if it does
> work?
> 
> Note - these will be unaccelerated drivers (not so much of an issue
> for the basic PMAG-A and B, but a pity for the more powerful models),
> but it could at least allow alpha to get up to the latest X server
> code which is a benefit for PCI based models, and better for moving
> forward

   If you don't get any more timely help with this, we at LSSM should be 
able to put together a TC Alpha system to test with.  We have all of the 
hardware.

               -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA