re: i386 library

[matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>]

   XFree86 is wanting to link against libi386, which appears to be a NetBSD
   specific library to handle some special processor manipulation. Can this
   be ported to Debian? Should it? Is there a reasonable way to work around
   code which wants these? Advice from NetBSD Gurus sought :)


netbsd "libarch" (libi386 on i386) contains any processor-specific
system calls, pretty much.  you want to build this probably.  on the
i386 it has these functions:

	i386_get_mtrr
	i386_set_mtrr
	i386_pmc_info
	i386_pmc_read
	i386_pmc_startstop
	i386_vm86
	i386_set_ioperm
	i386_get_ioperm
	i386_iopl
	i386_set_ldt
	i386_get_ldt

the names of which should be self explainitory to anyone who will
understand what they do :-)  i believe X needs it for the ioperm
and vm86 syscalls but i don't claim to understand it :-)