Re: X11R7 Xserver for x68k

Hello,

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:06:10 +1100
matthew green <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Last weekend I've managed to port old xfree X68k Xserver to X11R7.
> > 
> > x68k port has not been wscons'fied (yet), so I just copied
> > old style xsrc/xfree/xc/program/Xserver/hw/netbsd/x68k server
> > sources to xsrc/external/mit/xorg-server/dist/hw/netbsd/x68k
> > and put minimum changes (for Xorg API changes) to build
> > a 'monolithic' Xserver binary like Xnest and Xvfb.
> > Patch is here (can be applied both HEAD and netbsd-6):
> > https://gist.github.com/tsutsui/9167958
> 
> while not perfect, this sounds pretty good!  if someone gets
> really interested, they can write the xf86-video-$driver for
> it, but this is a big step forward.

On this kind of hardware it's probably better to leave all that
hw/xfree86 goop out and have a small monolithic xserver.

have fun
Michael