Re: [DRI] PCI GART support on trunk
"Zephaniah E. Hull" wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yes, the branch has been merged in yesterday!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This adds not only support for PCI Rage128 boards, but (more
> > > > importantly ;) also PPC support!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Zephaniah, us PPC folks would appreciate if you could update your DRI
> > > > source packages sometime soon so that we can give them a whirl.
> > >
> > > I'm going to need a PPC box to build on, around 600M of drive space free
> > > and running sid if at all possible.
> >
> > You could use voltaire, or I or someone else could do the building until
> > you upload the source.
>
> Hmm, voltaire might just work, provided I can figure out how to use the
> unstable chroot.
AFAICS voltaire is running unstable anyway.
> What -mcpu option should I be using for the PPC packages?
>
> They seem to be suggesting 750, but I'm not sure why
The 750 is better known as G3, most machines with a Rage128 chip will have
that or better.
> nor what the rest of the Debian PPC packages are compiled with.
Probably without any -m switch so they run on all processors, AFAIK even code
compiled with -mcpu=750 should run (if not optimally) on most of them if not
all. Someone else would have to fill in the details.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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