FW: XFree86 Port (Message from XFree86/OS2 developer)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com> wrote:
> This is for users, may be you will find it informative.
> Xterm, xdm etc are the issue because Cygwin support TTY.
> 
> After spending a couple hours on Internet I found 3 freeware drivers
> for Windows which do I/O, and memory maping what he is describing in his
> message
> as a must for XFree86 server to run.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> > Compiling the stuff with Cygnus GNU or even better with EMX and RSX, is
> > as you correctly found out, not the real problem with the port.
> > XF86SUP.SYS is the essential part of the port. This is not only the
> > mentioned fastio and pmap devices, but also (for xconsole and xterm) a
> > rather complete Unix TTY/PTY/Console emulation. If you neglect xterm,
> > xdm and xconsole for a while, infact your showstoppers are fastio and
> > pmap.
> > To explain what they do:
> > pmap allows to map arbitrary physical memory into the X server's address
> > space. I don't know cygwin enough to know whether there is a working
> > mmap/munmap Unix call available, if so, it must be capable of accessing

Both of these call are supported by the cygwin library.


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