Re: XFree86 4.0.1 on XL 266 (Thinks it is a Jensen)
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Ghandi wrote:
> I tried stabbing into the XF code and found that it detected Jensen's by
> the _bus_base() function (Jensen-like machines return NULL it seems), but
> that's as far as I got (and my Alpha architecture knowledge is somewhat
> limited). There definitely is a lack of XFree4 Alpha docs. I appreciate
> anything you can find out about this.
_bus_base() is, indeed, the function in question. It does much more than
just detect whether or not the machine in question is a Jensen,
though. For some reason, on the XL that you have, it's not returning the
values that it should, unfortunately. I'll see if I can write some code
today to see what the return value of _bus_base() is on your
machine. I'll also dig into the glibc code a bit for more info (since the
function is totally undocumented in the standard docs).
Do you have any technical docs on your XL, by any chance? I think I have
some, but I'm not sure yet...
> Spending some quality time in console-land never hurt anyone :). Thanks,
> again.
No problem. I'll work on that code right now. With the glibc compilation
out of the way now, I can work on this a bit while waiting for another
test-compile of Qt churns.
C
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