X server on Linux 2.4

[Dave Airlie]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Bryan Henderson <bryanh at giraffe-data.com> wrote:
> Does current server code work on a Linux 2.4 kernel?
>
> Initial investigation indicates no, as I built a server from X.org 7.5 source
> and it (e.g. 'vesa' driver) uses libpciaccess to find the video controller and
> libpciaccess uses sysfs and sysfs doesn't exist on Linux 2.4.

You should just need to add pre-sysfs support to libpciaccess in theory,

this could probably use the HURD direct to pci backend, and some /dev/mem.

Otherwise the server has no requirements on 2.6 I don't think, but I
could be wrong,
its the usual why ship a new X server on an ancient kernel.

Dave.