mga driver / HALlib

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:45:06PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> I wonder how the HAL module in the mga driver could be built with
> X.Org 7.1. Looks like this isn't intended any more. There is nothing
> provided in configure/Makefile.am files to still build the mga_hal_drv
> module.
> 
> The driver still tries to load it as you can see in mga_driver.c
> (...xf86LoadSubmodule (... "mga_hal") ...) when USEMGAHAL is set. So
> the code has not been dropped yet. And it still seems to be required
> for features like MergedFB as you can see in the driver output, when
> you try to enable MergedFB.
> 
>   ' HALLib not loaded! NOT using "Merged Framebuffer" mode. '

I tried this one.

ld --whole-archive -shared -soname mga_hal_drv.so \
   -o /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.so \
   HALlib/mgaHALlib.a

and took the appropriate binding.h and set -DUSEMGAHAL for building
the mga_drv module. But this results in

(II) Loading sub module "mga_hal"
(II) LoadModule: "mga_hal"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.so: undefined symbol: HALPChangePixelClock
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "mga_hal"
(EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (loader failed, 7)
(==) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module not loaded - using builtin mode setup instead

Any hints would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Stefan

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