From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Heikki Lindholm <holindho@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:51:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4339161D.4010607@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17209.5879.121421.718258@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Pantelis Antoniou writes:
>
>
>>Count me in too; using a 970 in 32 bit mode, because of gentoo X.org
>>problems in 64 bit mode.
>
>
> I'm using an X.org server on a ppc64 kernel, and it all works,
> including DRI. Both 32-bit and 64-bit X server and clients work. We
> now have the 32-bit ioctl compatibility sorted out in the kernel DRM.
> So I don't think X is a reason to run a 32-bit kernel any more.
>
> What X.org problems do you see with a 64-bit kernel?
>
> Paul.
>
>
>
I didn't really tried a very recent kernel, I tried it about a month ago,
and it didn't work. Could be a gentoo problem for all I know.
Since I don't have time to debug these kind of problems, it's really nice
to know that it now works :).
No worries then.
Regards
Pantelis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-27 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-27 0:25 Starting the arch/powerpc merge Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 3:39 ` Kumar Gala
2005-09-27 5:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-09-27 9:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 8:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-27 8:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 9:16 ` Heikki Lindholm
2005-09-27 9:26 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-09-27 9:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 9:51 ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
2005-09-28 0:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-09-29 7:20 ` Giuliano Pochini
2005-10-06 23:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-20 23:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-21 7:19 ` Giuliano Pochini
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-27 15:43 Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-27 16:43 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-27 17:29 ` Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-28 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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