Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:42:18PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >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 think the 2.4 kernels already have support for the mouse on the 7500. You
> can probably copy the code verbatim.
tried that, maybe with older code, and it didn't work very well. It seems
some mice simply decided to reset improperly.
> >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
>
> By "an arch in its own right", do you just mean it has its own MACH_TYPE
> number, or that it's a completely separate configuration? In other words, can
> you compile a single kernel with support for both RiscPC and riscstation and
> select between them at run time (as you can for EBSA-285/CATS/NetWinder) or do
> you have to have separate binaries?
erm, ok, it has a machine type... wether or not it can work with RiscPC is
something i've not really tried.
> >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.
>
> Excellent.
yeah, probably pickup CATS support at somepoint to.
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Ben
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