re-adding Linux on PowerPC support to Xvnc server code
Peter A. Castro
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Jul 18 19:07:01 2002
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, bronto wrote:
> 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.
I'll do you one better: rpms
http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/index.html
http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-3.3.3r2-34a.ppc.rpm
http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-doc-3.3.3r2-34a.ppc.rpm
http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-server-3.3.3r2-34a.ppc.rpm
http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-3.3.3r2-34a.src.rpm
I've grabbed (what I think is) the latest 3.3.3r2 source rpm, added my
patch to it and rebuild the src/ppc rpms as mod 34a. I've installed and
tested them under YDL-2.3, so all I can say is "they work for me" :-)
I have no idea if my simple patch is truely all there is to re-adding PPC
support (I suspect some maintainer, somewhere, is muttering "wrong wrong
wrong!"). But at least it works (for now).
> 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<---------------------------
> >
> >--
> >Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
> > "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood
> >
> >
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