Gentoo Linux for Sparc Systems. The following patch is for pci based sparcs. Dave Miller has patched the 4.1.0 stock X tree and the changes have never been applied to the stock tree. This patch fixes that problem only for Gentoo Linux. It fixes the pcimemmap error experienced by most ultra, and blade owners... This patches cleanly against the gentoo tree and plays nicely in the sandbox.
Created attachment 3832 [details, diff] bug to fix sparc64 pci issue
azarah, have a patch to fix an icssue with PCI on sparc64. Thanks
added cc. that attachment is bzipped btw 8^) -cjr-
Created attachment 3844 [details] adding support for new alpha elf gp-relative link format for binutils 2.13.90.x/gcc32 The latest binutils on alpha change the link format on elf-64 executables in conjunction with gcc3.x. The dynamic elf-loader in xfree does not support this in 4.2.1. The attached patch adds support for this.
Created attachment 3845 [details, diff] Sparc PCI domains patch by Dave Miller patched to work with Gentoo's X tree. needs to be placed in /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/files/4.2.1-patches --joshua
Ok, I am guessing patch 3832 and 3844 is the same thing ? Sorry, but galeon-cvs keeps on segfaulting for ftp:// and attachments :/ Then, I can verify the sparc patch, as I already grabbed it from Rawhide SRPMS when the first issues on sparc got to me from Gerk I think. Lastly .. how intrusive is these patches ? Should they only be applied if ARCH=whatever, or are they (pci especially) xfree updates in general, and will even work on ppc/x86 ?
> Should they only be applied if ARCH=whatever ? I think that's best, if it's an ARCH specific fix perhaps leave other platforms alone. No point introducing problems for everyone to correct iddues for the few. Expecially considering we needed to modify the sparc_pci_domains patch to get around changes the Suse patch made in the same area. I don't know what 3844 is, but 3382 and 3845 are probably the same thing.
Ok guys .. the final patches in ? I know alpha is not in yet, so please attach or mail me, as I want to get this fixed.
the sparc boys are happy afaik.
Added sparc patch to CVS. BJB, if you are struggling, let me know ...
I commited the required patches for alpha to cvs. Tested on 4 different machines. On a fifth machine I found another problem that I do have a patch for but because it appears really invasive to me Ill first doublecheck and see if it affects the other machines. This patch that Ive written has obviously not been hit by any other alpha distro, so I want to be sure that it is correct to change. Other than that Im happy with 4.2.1 and agree to unmask asap.
