Re: Xorg 7 on sparc64

[Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org>]

Hi,

Today, 13 hours, 42 minutes, 29 seconds ago, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 
> >I should note that the above remark applied to 2.6.15, probably _before_
> >running X.  With 2.6.16-1 (from sid), I can observe the following funny
> >thing:
> >
> > # file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libxaa.so
> > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libxaa.so: Sun disk label 'ST39111A cyl 17660 alt 2 
> > hd 16 sec 63' 14285 phys cys, 51 alts/cyl, 0 blocks, boot block present
> >
> >With 2.6.15, it's now `libramdac.so' that gets broken:
> >
> > # file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so
> > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so: sparc executable
> >
> >This randomness may explain why we do not experience the same problems.
> 
> Ugh. The only thing which comes to mind is that your kernel got 
> miscompiled somehow. Dave Miller mentioned on sparclinux list that gcc 4.1 
> causes problems, perhaps you are using it to build the kernels?

No, I'm running the Debian kernels from `unstable'.

So the way X talks to the kernel/hardware must be quite unorthodox.
Maybe some DMA issue or something like that?

Thanks,
Ludovic.