Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:58:26AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >So I think there's good arguments for making lkab supply some kernels for
> >more devices, but for Debian itself adding lart (and Riscstation if the
> >patches are now avaialble?) is sufficient.
patches have been up (and used) from my website. just trying to get the time
to finish of 2.2.19, and sort problems with 7500 mouse support.
> I've no idea what the status is with the riscstation stuff. It's been
> allegedly "almost ready for release" for the last year or so, but I've never
> seen any actual code. But yeah, if patches did exist that would be a good
> thing to have support for. I don't know whether it's similar enough to a
> RiscPC that they could share a single subarch -- that would be ideal from a
> release engineering standpoint, but there might be technical obstacles.
no, for a start there is no pc-style hard-disc, so I disable that from
working on the riscstation, the rtc is different, there is an ISA slot[1]
and other miscellaneous bits. It is registered as an arch in it's own
right
I'll be working for Simtec as of november, so will have some real time to
dedicate to kernel work, like sorting a 2.4 release, etc. My current job
keeps leaving me little time to keep up-to-date with kernel releases, which
is why the riscstation hasn't managed mainstream arm status.
[1] this is the main stumbling block atm, and I have to make some time
to post a requrest for comments to the kernel list.
--
Ben
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