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SubjectRe: [BUG] 2.6.26-rc1 broke X on SPARC Ultra5
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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
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