alpha & pmax hardware for migrating from XFree86 to Xorg

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2 total messages Started by David Brownlee Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:02

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Author: David Brownlee
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:02

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Most NetBSD ports have moved across from the older XFree86 to Xorg for
native X11 support, but there are a number still using XFree, mainly
on older and less common hardware.

One case would be TURBOchannel based machines, which affects three ports:
- alpha. Xorg drivers have already been written for PCI based
machines, but the port cannot cut across due to the lack of Xorg
drivers for TC (I'm going to wave my hands about EISA)
- pmax. Pretty much all graphics hardware is TC via cards or onboard
- vax. The VS4000/60 & 90 had optional TC adaptors. Not common, but
there were some

Michael Lorenz <macallan1888@gmail.com> has written more than a few X
TURBOchannel for NetBSD, and has offered as time permits to look at
adding new or porting Xfree86 drivers to Xorg for TC based alpha &
pmax machines, but he lacks the hardware.

so... all we need would be people with spare (not overly large :) TC
machines and or graphics cards they would be willing to ship across to
him in eastern TN.

I would be more than happy to help with postage in some cases, as I'm
sure would others.

Re: alpha & pmax hardware for migrating from XFree86 to Xorg

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Author: Michael Kronsteiner
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:51

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I have sent 2 fast vaxes (4000/90A and a 4000/96) some time ago to a guy
named "blaz antonic" who did some work on the framebuffer drivers for
*BSD

I still own a few TURBOchannel alphas (mainly the whole DEC3000
series, /300, /600, /500) and a 2 dec 5000/200 (pmax) machines, and
would like to help... unfortunately i live in central europe, austria.

the /600 has a beefy 192mb RAM, and might be a nice developer machine...
the /500 is way to heavy to ship anywhere, and i want to keep
the /300... but im open for requests... and as i have "connections" i
can maybe organize further TC machines if desired.

I also still have a "2 turbochannels in use" PXG+ or so, and will
happily support any developer.



> One case would be TURBOchannel based machines, which affects three ports:
> - alpha. Xorg drivers have already been written for PCI based
> machines, but the port cannot cut across due to the lack of Xorg
> drivers for TC (I'm going to wave my hands about EISA)
> - pmax. Pretty much all graphics hardware is TC via cards or onboard
> - vax. The VS4000/60 & 90 had optional TC adaptors. Not common, but
> there were some
> 
> Michael Lorenz <macallan1888@gmail.com> has written more than a few X
> TURBOchannel for NetBSD, and has offered as time permits to look at
> adding new or porting Xfree86 drivers to Xorg for TC based alpha &
> pmax machines, but he lacks the hardware.
> 
> so... all we need would be people with spare (not overly large :) TC
> machines and or graphics cards they would be willing to ship across to
> him in eastern TN.
> 
> I would be more than happy to help with postage in some cases, as I'm
> sure would others.

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