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Hello,

>    XFree86 is currently built on sparc, but only with drivers for
>    framebuffers you're likely to find in 32bit machines and since it
>    needs wscons it's only useful on SPARCbooks, Krups and machines
>    with cg6. PCI support is in there and should work so building more
>    drivers is just some trivial Makefile hacking.
>=20
> it seems we should try to build the same set of drivers on sparc
> as we do on sparc64 (but necessarily vice versa) as we can run
> sparc on sparc64 h/w, but no need for eg tcx on sparc64.

No objections at all, I'd rather like to see more people running XFree
on NetBSD/sparc - I get the inpression that I'm more or less the only
one ;)

>    About ffb - it uses VIS assembler code, I'm not sure if that would
>    Just Work or not - probably needs some extra fiddling to get it
>    built, like telling the assembler to accept it.
>=20
> is the VIS code 32 bit and 64 bit happy?  if so, it should be
> no big problem... we already share assembler sources for these
> platforms in several cases.

Worth a try I guess.=20

have fun
Michael

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