Dan Nicholson wrote: > Right now in the BLFS book, the Xorg-7 drivers page has a big warning > that says "Don't build the sparc drivers because it will lock your > display". What do you guys think about just blacklisting these modules > by commenting them in the wget list so they're never downloaded? > Something like this seems to work with wget: > > --- driver.wget.orig 2007-02-04 10:06:27.000000000 -0800 > +++ driver.wget 2007-02-04 10:06:02.000000000 -0800 > @@ -52,13 +52,14 @@ xf86-video-savage-2.1.2.tar.bz2 > xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.4.2.tar.bz2 > xf86-video-sis-0.9.3.tar.bz2 > xf86-video-sisusb-0.8.1.tar.bz2 > -xf86-video-sunbw2-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > -xf86-video-suncg14-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > -xf86-video-suncg3-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > -xf86-video-suncg6-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > -xf86-video-sunffb-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > -xf86-video-sunleo-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > -xf86-video-suntcx-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > +<!-- The SPARC drivers cause a display lockup on x86. Don't build them. --> > +<!-- xf86-video-sunbw2-1.1.0.tar.bz2 --> > +<!-- xf86-video-suncg14-1.1.0.tar.bz2 --> > +<!-- xf86-video-suncg3-1.1.0.tar.bz2 --> > +<!-- xf86-video-suncg6-1.1.0.tar.bz2 --> > +<!-- xf86-video-sunffb-1.1.0.tar.bz2 --> > +<!-- xf86-video-sunleo-1.1.0.tar.bz2 --> > +<!-- xf86-video-suntcx-1.1.0.tar.bz2 --> > xf86-video-tdfx-1.2.2.tar.bz2 > xf86-video-tga-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > xf86-video-trident-1.2.3.tar.bz2 > > There are a couple a couple other packages that are useless for us, > too: applewmproto, windowswmproto, libAppleWM and libWindowsWM for > obvious reasons. > > What do you guys think? > > -- > Dan > Only a consistency issue. We don't support OSX or Windows either so those should be removed as well. There really shouldn't be anything that needs those, but we are too close to release not to test this one by a _full_ build of X to make sure that it works as advertised, which takes a little extra time to do. I can prolly do it later on in the week.
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