On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Bryan Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Does current server code work on a Linux 2.4 kernel? > > Initial investigation indicates no, as I built a server from X.org 7.5 source > and it (e.g. 'vesa' driver) uses libpciaccess to find the video controller and > libpciaccess uses sysfs and sysfs doesn't exist on Linux 2.4.
You should just need to add pre-sysfs support to libpciaccess in theory, this could probably use the HURD direct to pci backend, and some /dev/mem. Otherwise the server has no requirements on 2.6 I don't think, but I could be wrong, its the usual why ship a new X server on an ancient kernel. Dave. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
