From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA57213 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:23:29 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA00948 for linux-list; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:22:18 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA11210 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:22:16 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (tnik@hol.gr) Received: from mail.hol.gr (mail.hol.gr [194.30.192.21]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id LAA02539 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:22:14 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (tnik@hol.gr) Received: (qmail 1094 invoked from network); 13 Apr 1999 18:21:53 -0000 Received: from vdp032.ath01.cas.hol.gr (HELO hol.gr) (firewall-user@195.97.0.32) by mail.hol.gr with SMTP; 13 Apr 1999 18:21:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3713A71F.D5C11A7E@hol.gr> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:20:48 +0300 From: Theodoros Nikitopoulos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.24 ppc) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulf Carlsson CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Resources in X11 port #2 References: <199904130857.OAA23664@bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com> <19990413122357.A16312@ruvild.bun.falkenberg.se> <371371D7.A8187D38@hol.gr> <19990413192157.A25858@bun.falkenberg.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk It seems I should make more clear some things concerning the page. First of all, it doesn't reflect the way the port will be done.. This will be decided by the developers (Ulf Carlsson and whoever else..) I would be very glad if I could help too, but for the time being it's not possible. The scope of the page is mainly to provide some resources I've found and thought they could help :-) About why recommending starting with a 6.3 tree and patching up to XFree86 3.3.3 well it's a personal taste of how I would probably work on it. Why someone should worry with the differences of his docume- ntation and his actual sources? Just make the port and then add the patches. Anyways, the above seems to me a minor issue. The problem exists in porting the device-dependent parts. By the way, I haven't found any ASCII version of the documentation, but in case anyone is interested there exists a converter utility pstotext, available at: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html However, the output of it might be vague. Regards, Theodore.