Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.6.26-rc1 broke X on SPARC Ultra5 | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:04:02 +0200 |
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David Miller wrote: > Meanwhile X itself shipped mostly-non-working for PCI devices on sparc > for years. And would you also not argue that it's broken to begin > with that the older X servers cannot work properly without a root PCI > controller being there?
I can relate to that as starting X at one point ate the partition table on both my harddrives due to a PCI handling bug :-/
I assume this is not an issue with X.Org 7.3 (which is what Debian Lenny will probably release with)?
> I'm the only sparc64 platform developer, so my time is better spent > moving forward and making sure that libpciaccess based X servers > aren't so broken and do the right thing in a way which works in a > maintainable long term manner.
From my limited perspective: agreed. And thanks for all the work you do.
Cheers, FJP [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |