Re: working xfree86 4.1.0?
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:01:57PM +0100, Kars de Jong wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:33:30PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > I basically copied the PPC code and tested it on my Amiga 040
> > (WarpEngine) and it worked fine. I guessed as much that the icache
> > flushing wouldn't work for other machines though.
> >
> > Can't we just use the routines from asm/pgalloc.h, but we need to
> > determine the CPU type from user space. We can redefine an
> > icache_flush() routine in
> > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/compiler.h just like the PPC.
>
> No, the cache flushing instructions on m68k are supervisor only. That's why
> we have a cacheflush() system call.
>
O.k. It should be simple enough to add that system call into the code
at the same place the PPC code had the flush.
> > If someone creates it, I'll get it committed to XFree86.
>
> I'll do that, I'm a member of XFree86 as well.
>
Sorry Kars, I meant that I have commit access.
Alan.
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