[PATCH] xf86AutoConfig: Try newport on mips.

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Mark.

Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> (27/02/2011):
> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> (27/02/2011):
> > Not necessary a good idea.  The autoconfig code was broken some time
> > ago by a "all-the-world-is-PCI" believer some time ago.  The
> > breakage is that if you list more than a single "possible" video
> > driver, things break.  That's why we actually have a diff in the
> > OpenBSD tree now that changes the
> > 
> >   #elif defined(__sparc__) && !defined(sun)
> > […]
> 
> that probably should land upstream?

That still stands.

> > If the Linux community thinks this is still a good idea, you could
> > do something similar and use:
> > 
> >   #elif define(__mips__) && defined(__linux__)
> 
> FWIW, I'm mostly proxying Bernhard's patch, I can't unfortunately
> perform tests on those systems, being under Linux or other systems.

Since it just works for Bernhard, since you already have
platform-specific tricks, and since Matt has r-b'd this patch, I think
I'll just go ahead and include it in my pull request, and leave it up
to you folks to push your changes. Unless you have a last-minute
objection?

Mraw,
KiBi.
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