XFree86 is wanting to link against libi386, which appears to be a NetBSD
specific library to handle some special processor manipulation. Can this
be ported to Debian? Should it? Is there a reasonable way to work around
code which wants these? Advice from NetBSD Gurus sought :)
netbsd "libarch" (libi386 on i386) contains any processor-specific
system calls, pretty much. you want to build this probably. on the
i386 it has these functions:
i386_get_mtrr
i386_set_mtrr
i386_pmc_info
i386_pmc_read
i386_pmc_startstop
i386_vm86
i386_set_ioperm
i386_get_ioperm
i386_iopl
i386_set_ldt
i386_get_ldt
the names of which should be self explainitory to anyone who will
understand what they do :-) i believe X needs it for the ioperm
and vm86 syscalls but i don't claim to understand it :-)
