-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,
On Sep 4, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Matt Turner wrote: > >> I'd like to drop support for non-BWX Alphas (EV4 and original EV5) >> from X. These machines can't load/store to single bytes and require >> special sparse memory mappings. >> >> The code required to select which functions (sparse, dense) is >> convoluted, adds an extra layer of indirection, probably gets close >> to >> zero usage, and even less testing. >> >> Does anyone use X on EV4 or EV5 (not EV56, EV56 has BWX)? > > What's the problem with making it a build-time option? You may inline > the indirection based on a macro or suchlike and keep the more > complicated > code for a reference, even if you don't get any bug reports for a > while > (perhaps the code is perfect? ;) ). Linux is probably going to > support > pre-BWX machines as long as the Alpha port itself and you may have > troubles reaching all the interested users, especially as not everyone > makes frequent upgrades. Same with NetBSD, we will probably support these machines as long as anyone can be arsed to play portmaster. have fun Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBSqLrgcpnzkX8Yg2nAQK1EQf/f7HXBki5+j28VFdk8BloZbme+p4TtQgY jXwkwB5rP64Lu7XQjYpH0hJsB8rE4ELqSP85R2j4kmKNOMFuUsVFPKUOlMCn/6hn 6nyEnuIt/G9ic/3p66Bu9H0Rb9X8JGkVpvWO6hSGg3Ir2A5X+8h8wsyJk2OqZCLM kZHbeZXDkMjMtmh2wcpLpDqBXhKKWTQajPObPbaUaPsDnDMnNO0jIsb/dzcPXyrM x/YlHdq6ch5ej0x5lRNq1vnlzI82X5zoxGUiC37jYNgL7u1K36zhPJgLAPi5oeDx K2GQRyWuD5poxBDw3yfQ+iUbjNzKC8hD86AU+vfHqXlSlqT+in7NtA== =JA23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
