[PATCH] xf86AutoConfig: Try newport on mips.

Cyril Brulebois kibi at debian.org
Sun Feb 27 14:40:00 PST 2011


Hi,

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?

> 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.

KiBi.
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