Peter Wemm jelentése szerint sikeresen futtatot az amd64 gépén X szervert. Elmondása szerint nagyon primitív a folt amelyet készített, és a további munkához szüksége lenne valakire, aki komolyabb ismeretekkel rendelkezik az XFree86 belső felépítésével kapcsolatban. Szerinte a jelenlegi állapot arra jó, hogy valaki felállítson egy X szervert és eljátszon vele. A tesztek során egy MGA G450-at használt.
Peter levele:To: current@freebsd.org, amd64@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:01:51 -0700
From: Peter Wemm
Subject: Patches for XFree86 for FreeBSD/amd64
I have the X server up and running on my machine at work, I'm currently using it in a desktop configuration (although not my primary desktop yet because I still need to have a place to finish off some kernel optimizations).
The first patch is against ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries:
http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/amd64-libraries.diff
The second is against ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-server:
http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/amd64-server.diff
You need to patch both, because the imake config files come from the libraries port and is used in the server build. I've submitted these to the port maintainer, so hopefully something might get committed soon.
Most of the rest of the diffs are to either add amd64 support to the FreeBSD configuration, or to fix XFree86 bugs where they assume that all amd64 systems are implicitly Linux based. These patches are very minimal and really need somebody with more knowledge of the XFree86 internals to
go over them. But it should be enough to get up and running to play around with it. I'm using a MGA G450 at work FWIW.
Cheers,
-Peter
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