> From: Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:52:18 +0100
>
> As suggested by Bernhard R. Link in Debian bug report #566545
> (http://bugs.debian.org/566545), newport is a candidate for
> autodetection on mips.
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
> b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
> index 5c6e721..ef1aab0 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
> @@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ listPossibleVideoDrivers(char *matches[], int nmatches)
> matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("vesa");
> #elif defined(__sparc__) && !defined(sun)
> matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("sunffb");
> +#elif defined(__mips__)
> + matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("newport");
> #endif
> }
Not necessary a good idea. The autoconfig code was broken some time
ago by a "all-the-world-is-PCI" believer some time ago. The breakage
is that if you list more than a single "possible" video driver, things
break. That's why we actually have a diff in the OpenBSD tree now
that changes the
#elif defined(__sparc__) && !defined(sun)
just above the bit you're adding into
#elif defined(__sparc__) && defined(__linux__)
Since we have some (OpenBSD-specific) SBus/UPA autodetection code that
can detect the hardware that needs the sunffb driver.
The problems is of course that there are a lot of different MIPS-based
platforms around, and most of them aren't an SGI Indy.
If the Linux community thinks this is still a good idea, you could do
something similar and use:
#elif define(__mips__) && defined(__linux__)
Cheers,
Mark
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