Re: Modular xorg on NetBSD/sparc64

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 6, 2008, at 10:00, Pierre Pronchery wrote:

>                 Hello,
>
> I've just managed to compile and run modular-xorg-server 1.3.0.0nb3  
> from
> pkgsrc-2007Q3 on my Ultra 60. It is not perfect yet (see the end of  
> this
> mail). I did not have too many things to change:
>
> $ cd /usr/pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server && make configure
> - hw/xfree86/os-support/bus/Makefile:
>   * uncommented "am__objects_10 = Sbus.lo" line 84
> - hw/xfree86/os-support/bus/Sbus.c:
>   * included changes from xsrc (the file is attached, it doesn't  
> add too
> many #ifdef)
> - hw/xfree86/os-support/bus/xf86Sbus.h:
>   * added these two lines under "#elif defined(__NetBSD__)":
>     #  include <dev/sun/fbio.h>
>     #  include <dev/ofw/openfirmio.h>
>     (this file is attached too)
> - hw/xfree86/common/Makefile:
>   * uncommented "am__objects_2 = xf86sbusBus.lo" line 78
> $ make package
>
> I then installed the stock xf86-video-sunffb-1.1.0.tar.gz from
> ftp.freedesktop.org. I did not check if the one from xsrc has  
> patches to
> backport yet.
>
> I can provide an actual pkgsrc patch for xf86Sbus.h and Sbus.c, but I
> did not find how to include the sbus bits for compilation properly.

Just mail whatever you've got to the package maintainer.

> The issue now is that Xorg constantly consumes 100% CPU. Widgets in
> WindowMaker and Gtk+ draw very slowly, I can see every blit appear
> sequentially with steps of 0.5s. The pixbuf demo from gtk-demo is
> running decently though.

As martin said - that's been fixed in xsrc. The relevant file is  
drivers/sunffb/VISmoveimage.s, you can probably just copy it over  
from xsrc and rebuild the sunffb driver.

have fun
Michael
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