Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> > For comparison, these are the ones we ship 32-bit versions of that >> we've >> > skipped 64-bit versions of: >> >> > cirrus_alpine.so - Cirrus Logic >> > cirrus_drv.so - Cirrus Logic >> > cirrus_laguna.so - Cirrus Logic >> >> Qemu emulates a CL-GD5446 and provides support for running in 64bit. >> Would that mean it would be useful to have one of these as 64bit or >> would the 64 bit vesa_drv.so be sufficient ? > > Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about Qemu, so will have to rely on > advice from others there.
Martin has responded saying he things this is needed for Qemu because the VESA driver has issues under Qemu. >> Given that this is X11R7.2 is there going to be a /usr/X11R7 symlink >> that points to /usr/X11 ? What happens to the existing /usr/X11R6 >> symlink that currently points to /usr/X11 ? > > The X11R6 symlink was added for compatibility with other systems which > used that path. At this point I am not aware of any systems installing > X11R7 into /usr/X11R7. (Most Linux distros in fact took the change as > their time to move directly into /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.) Thus, I'm > leaving the /usr/X11R6->X11 symlink as is and not adding a new one. Seems reasonable to me, just wanted to check it hadn't been overlooked. -- Darren J Moffat
