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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:759 comp.windows.x.i386unix:807 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!emory!gatech!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!att-out!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: Is there Xbsd8514 for XFree 1.2??? Organization: AT&T Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 15:00:19 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar13.150019.12868@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1993Mar13.133704.416@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Lines: 53 In article <1993Mar13.133704.416@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes: > > The title pretty much says it all---Has anybody been able to get > XBSD8514 to work with XFree86 1.2 along with Holger Veit's codrv packages > ...? > > If so, where might I be able to find the binaries and perhaps instructions > on this..? > > Thanks a bunch! > > Toodlepip! > Marc 'em. > -- > storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill P.O.W Camp "Oh crap---It's not > Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA random enough" > Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord > Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran. It does not exist in any "official" form that I am aware of. We are working on XFree86 2.0 which will include S3 and 8514 (and probably some others), with all the XFree86 features you've come to know and love (:->). We are not yet far enough along to make any estimates of when it will be ready to ship. People wonder why this is taking so long. There are some major issues involved. Some of them have been worked out; some are being worked as we speak, and some have yet to be worked out. Here's a few of the major ones: 1) XS3 and X8514 are derived from X11R5, at a much lower patch level than XFree86. They were not designed to allow other servers to be built from the same source tree. So we have to come up with a source tree that allows everything to coexist. 2) SVR3, SVR4 and Mach are a bit anal-retentive when it comes to getting access to the hardware. Some tricks have to be built in to get access to the extended I/O ports these boards use. For Mach, we may have to wind up with a device driver. For SVR4, we had to build a kernel patch (binary, remember). 3) Neither XS3 nor X8514 will pass the XTEST suite as they stand today. We intend to not ship any server that performs less well than stock X11R5 on the XTEST suite (the current XFree86 servers do much better). 4) Many (most?) of the people doing this work are students. For some odd reason, they consider their school work more important than XFree86 (:->). -- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 "In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky. They stand there." -- Yes, Roundabout