re-adding Linux on PowerPC support to Xvnc server code

[bronto]

You've got no idea how badly I want to get vnc running on my server.

Can you dumb down the instructions a little more and make a source .tar of 
the whole package available?  This would be awesome.

Thanks


At 09:32 PM 7/17/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>   (I'm not quite sure just who should get this patch, so I'm sending it to
>several, hopefully, relevent lists).
>   I've been wrestling with getting the vnc/tight-vnc server to run under
>YDL on PowerPC and not have not had any luck with any of the pre-build
>rpms after 3.3.3-4.  It appears this problem has existed every since
>vnc-3.3.3r2 or so.  The real problem is that support for Linux on PowerPC
>was dropped from the server machine dependent header file, I presume
>unintentionally.  Without it, the byte order defaults to LSBFirst which
>doesn't quite work on a big-endian machine :) I've re-added the code and
>am including a patch.  Note that with the patch, the compiler complains
>about IMAGE_BYTE_ORDER and BITMAP_BIT_ORDER being redefined, but that's
>OK :).
>
>The patch is against tightvnc-1.2.4 (tightvnc-1.2.4_unixsrc.tar.bz2), but
>probably patches against the generic vnc source as well.  Hopefully
>someone will figure out just who owns this file.
>----------------8<-----------------------------8<---------------------------
>diff -ur vnc_unixsrc-1.2.4/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h 
>vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h
>--- vnc_unixsrc-1.2.4/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h   Tue Mar 
>19 21:36:47 2002
>+++ vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h         Wed Jul 
>17 20:19:25 2002
>@@ -386,6 +386,22 @@
>
>  #endif /* linux/m68k */
>
>+#if defined (linux) && defined(__powerpc__)
>+
>+#define IMAGE_BYTE_ORDER       MSBFirst
>+#define BITMAP_BIT_ORDER       MSBFirst
>+#define GLYPHPADBYTES          4
>+#define GETLEFTBITS_ALIGNMENT  1
>+
>+#define LARGE_INSTRUCTION_CACHE
>+#define FAST_CONSTANT_OFFSET_MODE
>+#define PLENTIFUL_REGISTERS
>+#define AVOID_MEMORY_READ
>+
>+#define FAST_MEMCPY
>+
>+#endif /* Linux/PPC */
>+
>  #ifdef sgi
>
>  #define IMAGE_BYTE_ORDER       MSBFirst
>----------------8<-----------------------------8<---------------------------
>
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