From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ian Reinhart Geiser To: William Blew , Subject: Re: OT: Where do I send a PPC centric XF4 patch? Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:12:04 -0600 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01021917120400.15326@elysium.linuxppc.org> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: send the patch to: Ani Joshi he is doing the ppc X stuff. thanks for your hard work -ian reinhart geiser On Monday February 19, 2001 3:51 pm, William Blew wrote: > First, if this is offtopic I apologize... > > I am putting the finishing touches on a patch to the XF4 tree that > provides for: > > 1) Fixup the "ati" driver so that it doesn't SIGSEGV on the PPC > when the XFree86 server doesn't support loadable modules. I.E> > > in "xc/config/cf/host.def" "DoLoadableServer NO" appears > > I found that this made debugging XF4 under PPC very doable.. > > 2) Add hardware cursor support for mach64 to the "ati" driver. > > While this support whould work on an x86, I have a pmac ;-) > > Questions: > > 1) Where do I send this patch? It is based on the 4.0.2-ie source from > linuxppc.org that included the PPC drivers' support. Do I just send it > to fixes@xfree.org? Or perhaps to one of the PPC developers here on > this list, for integration into the ongoing PPC drivers' work? > > 2) Is there an xfree.org contributor on this mailing list who is willing > to take such patches and incorporate them into the ongoing XF4 (PPC) work > and/or pass them on the appropriate people? > > Or, just let me who those people are and I'll pass such things on to them > myself. > > Given that this is the first interesting patch I have produced I am still > a little undertain as to how these things typically work... > > Thanks in advance. > -- > William Blew, wblew@home.com > Gamer by Choice, Geek by Birth > > -- =================================================== First, we reload the gun. Then, pointing to our feet, we shoot. Now we think that oughta hurt, but hey - we saw this coming! =================================================== Ian Reinhart Geiser LinuxPPC & KDE Developer LinuxPPC Inc ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/