Re: XFree 4.1
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:45, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:31:45 +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Gerhard Tubl wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Well I read much stuff about xfree and it helps me a lot to get it run, but
> > > not really.
> > > When it starts it works fine (yes I have really installed KDE2 wow, real
> > > slow, but it works..)
> > >
> > > I also read bout the problems on the xfree server 4.0 with the "Caught
> > > signal 11. Server aborting" problem. And there is my problem:
> > >
> > > I have an A4000 with Cyberstorm MKII 68060 50MHz about 50MByte RAM and the
> > > scsi module. The graphic card I used is the Retina Z3.
> > > I also installed woody, and set up xfree from woody (config file see
> > > attachment)
> >
> > module loading is still broken on 68060, missing cacheflush somewhere.
> > Untill this can be fixed use the statically linked version of the
> > X server which should be in the debuggibg package.
>
> If somecan can provide a user level mechanism of flushing the cache
> on 060 then I'll add it to the XFree86 CVS.
> It's already done on Alpha and PPC machines, so the place at which this
> should be done is already in place.
You have to use the cacheflush() syscall on m68k because the
cacheflushing instructions are priviliged.
Unfortunately it is not advisable to use the same method of cache
flushing as is done for Alpha and PPC, because these flush the cache
every time a relocation is done, which is extremely inefficient (several
hundred if not more syscalls() for a single module, believe me, I tried
and it's no fun).
I once wrote a version which would flush the entire code and data
sections after ALL relocations had been done using a single syscall(),
but unfortunately my Amiga is still not installed again after I moved so
I can't reach the files at the moment.
Kind regards,
Kars.
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