Modularization development notes [was Re: RFA sent to the ArchWG]

[Roland Mainz]

Kevin E Martin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:11:39PM -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> > Moving forward, we should start discussing the development plan here
> 
> Well, I got very busy last week, but finally found time to work on the
> devel plan today.  Here are my current thoughts.  I have marked a few
> places with [***] where I specifically would like to have feedback, but
> feel free to comment on anything.
> 
> Platform support
> ----------------
> 
> We need to find out who will be working on modularization so that we can
> get an idea of the platform coverage.  For the 6.8 release, I created a
> wiki page for the platforms that we wanted to test, and I would like to
> do the same for modularization.  The list of those platforms that people
> signed up to test was:
> 
> - AIX (no arch listed)
> - Cygwin (IA-32)
> - FreeBSD (Alpha, AMD64, IA-32, IA-64)

Note that DragonFly/BSD support was added recently to Xorg trunk...

> - HP-UX (PA-RISC)
> - Linux (Alpha, AMD64, ARM, IA-32, IA-64, M68k, MIPS, PPC, PPC64,
>   PA-RISC, S/390, Sparc)
> - MacOS (PPC)
> - MacOS/Darwin (IA-32, PPC)
> - OpenBSD (AMD64, IA-32)
> - Solaris (IA-32, Sparc)

Solaris also runs on AMD64 and may be extended to other platforms like
PPC64 with the OpenSolaris project...

> Other platforms that were listed, but didn't have anyone signed up to
> test were:
> 
> - IRIX

I can sign-up for IRIX/MIPS...

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Bye,
Roland

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