Subject: Re: X server for sparc
To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca>
From: Dennis Ferguson <dennis@ans.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/21/1994 11:03:51
> If someone would deal with this for a while, I am willing to make a
> few source tree changes to ease the porting of X. I know it isn't easy
> at the moment -- lots of needed stuff isn't available in
> /usr/include/machine.
I can tell you what would have made compiling a non-working server
easier, though I'll need to play a bit more to get past my current
impasse and discover what a working server might need.
A few #include files from arch/sparc/{dev,sbus} need to be copied somewhere
easier to get at. Absolutely required are
dev/kbio.h
dev/kbd.h
dev/vuid_event.h
Possibly required (they are needed only for a very few constants which
are now hardcoded into the server) are
sbus/btreg.h
sbus/bwtworeg.h
sbus/cgthreereg.h
sbus/cgsixreg.h
I copied them into /usr/include/dev, though anywhere would be fine.
It would make life easier if the following defines were made in vuid_event.h
and kbio.h (assuming they don't conflict with anything in the kernel):
*** 1.1 1994/07/21 14:12:42
--- vuid_event.h 1994/07/21 14:14:40
***************
*** 66,71 ****
--- 66,73 ----
#define MS_RIGHT 0x7f22 /* right mouse button */
#define LOC_X_DELTA 0x7f80 /* mouse delta-X */
#define LOC_Y_DELTA 0x7f81 /* mouse delta-Y */
+ #define LOC_X_ABSOLUTE 0x7f82 /* X compat, unsupported */
+ #define LOC_Y_ABSOLUTE 0x7f83 /* X compat, unsupported */
/*
* Special `value' fields. These apply to keys and mouse buttons. The
*** 1.1 1994/07/21 14:08:11
--- kbio.h 1994/07/21 14:11:49
***************
*** 85,88 ****
--- 85,91 ----
#define KIOCSDIRECT _IOW('k', 10, int) /* keys to console? */
#define KIOCLAYOUT _IOR('k', 20, int) /* get keyboard layout */
+ #define TR_NONE 0 /* X compat, unsupported */
+ #define TR_ASCII 1 /* X compat, unsupported */
+ #define TR_EVENT 2 /* X compat, unsupported */
#define TR_UNTRANS_EVENT 3
These certainly don't require kernel support (or the SunOS server wouldn't
work), but the server code references them and having them defined avoids
having to #ifdef out those blocks of code.
I don't have a lot of time to play with this, but on the other hand the
core dump I'm getting currently is not in a particularly ugly piece of
code so there may not be much wrong. I'll try to recompile the server
with debugging symbols and see if I can make some progress.
Dennis Ferguson
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