I'm the one who said rather rash things about starting work on it. Dan has
got my Alpha up and running very nicely and proven that it has staying
power. I just need another (longish) ethernet cable so we can all work
comfortably in my computer room.

I now have 3.9.16d but I need to start getting that sucker to compile. I
will be going for the modular driver rather than using the fbdev stuff as
the modular Xservers are more common right now. fbdev would be a good thing
to get stuff like tga bootstrapped using a more modern architecture than the
old X server. Either way, you should see speed increases.

Simon Burge noted that he had a set of patches to allow inb()/outb(); these
will be necessary until the cards are placed in MMIO mode. Simon, how are
these going?

Andrew

: -----Original Message-----
: From: port-alpha-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-alpha-owner@netbsd.org]On
: Behalf Of Ross Harvey
: Sent: Saturday, 20 November 1999 12:06 PM
: To: dhop@globalesi.com; port-alpha@netbsd.org
: Cc: dhop@nwlink.com
: Subject: Re: XFree86 SVGA Server
:
:
: > From: David Hopper <dhop@globalesi.com>
: >
: > Please forgive my ignorance of all things platform-independent, but
: > what would it take to implement an SVGA server for NetBSD-Alpha?  If
: > Xfree86 claims to have Alpha binaries already, to what platform are
: > they referring?  Linux?  FreeBSD?  (the statement in question is in
: > the release notes at
: > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/RELNOTES)
: >
: > Is it a simple recompile?  I know the answer is 'no', or someone would
: > have done this three years ago...
: >
: > Dave
:
:
: A fine question, and one that was extensively discussed here just a few
: weeks ago in mid-October. See:
:
: 	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/1999/10/
:
: A couple of people volunteered to work on it, perhaps they could respond
: with more detail???
: