On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 08:48:02PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > 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 :-)
Okay. Then we should probably put that on the list of "things similarly crucial to libc". I'll grab the source and try to compile it in the chroot I currently have. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
