On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Ghandi wrote: > I tried stabbing into the XF code and found that it detected Jensen's by > the _bus_base() function (Jensen-like machines return NULL it seems), but > that's as far as I got (and my Alpha architecture knowledge is somewhat > limited). There definitely is a lack of XFree4 Alpha docs. I appreciate > anything you can find out about this.
_bus_base() is, indeed, the function in question. It does much more than just detect whether or not the machine in question is a Jensen, though. For some reason, on the XL that you have, it's not returning the values that it should, unfortunately. I'll see if I can write some code today to see what the return value of _bus_base() is on your machine. I'll also dig into the glibc code a bit for more info (since the function is totally undocumented in the standard docs). Do you have any technical docs on your XL, by any chance? I think I have some, but I'm not sure yet... > Spending some quality time in console-land never hurt anyone :). Thanks, > again. No problem. I'll work on that code right now. With the glibc compilation out of the way now, I can work on this a bit while waiting for another test-compile of Qt churns. C
