Re: X.org and the Matrox Millenium II
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:17:02PM -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:57 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:00:07AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:02:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > XSF, can we switch to using dlloader on alpha? Pleeaaaase? :)
> > >
> > > It does not make sense to do this for one architecture only.
> > >
> > > I'd suggest that until we move to dlloader wholesale, alpha joins hppa,
> > > mips*, m68k, sh*, etc in using a static-only server.
> >
> > Are there any serious plans from upstream to move to dlloader after the
> > modularization effort is done?
>
> X.org HEAD was switched to build dlloader by default a while ago, so
> it'll be like that in 6.9/7.0. That said, I don't know if or how well
> dlloader works on all the architectures, but I'd expect it to be more
> portable than elfloader.
Ok, perhaps our best interests are served by getting 6.9/7.0 in to Debian
as fast as possible once it's released. I'd rather spend energy on that
than patching up 6.8 to make it a sorta-6.9.
- David Nusinow
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