David Miller wrote:
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> Meanwhile X itself shipped mostly-non-working for PCI devices on sparc
> for years.  And would you also not argue that it's broken to begin
> with that the older X servers cannot work properly without a root PCI
> controller being there?

I can relate to that as starting X at one point ate the partition table on=
=20
both my harddrives due to a PCI handling bug :-/
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I assume this is not an issue with X.Org 7.3 (which is what Debian Lenny=20
will probably release with)?

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> I'm the only sparc64 platform developer, so my time is better spent
> moving forward and making sure that libpciaccess based X servers
> aren't so broken and do the right thing in a way which works in a
> maintainable long term manner.

=46rom my limited perspective: agreed. And thanks for all the work you do.

Cheers,
=46JP