[Xorg] [PATCH] fix configure.ac and Makefile.am to allow x86emu

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at engr.sgi.com
Wed Jul 14 08:37:59 PDT 2004


On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:49 pm, Jakub Stachowski wrote:
> Dnia śro 14. lipca 2004 01:38, Kristian Høgsberg napisał:
> > Shouldn't that be enabled by default?  I've been trying to run the i830
> > driver and it doesn't get far with just stub.c...
>
> On Linux you can use vm86 handler from os-specific/linux/int10 instead. It
> seems to work better (and in my opinion should be default for Linux/i386) -
> allows to get DDC information from monitor on Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600
> with Trident CyberBlade/XP (x86emu fails with "01 illegal extended
> opcode").

Hm, it seems like x86emu should work on any platform, but I'm not familiar 
enough with its internals to say whether you need more defines for x86.  
Unconditionally enabling it would give us more exposure on the emulator and 
remove some special cases, so that's probably worth considering (assuming we 
can fix the problem you're seeing).  Otherwise, we'll probably want an 
autodetection function that uses vm86 on x86 and x86-64, but uses the 
emulator for every other platform.

Jesse



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