bugzilla entries for the X11R6.7 release

Kaleb S. KEITHLEY kaleb at keithley.org
Sat Apr 3 05:41:17 PST 2004


Roland Mainz wrote:

> Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
>>>>>>BTW: Are "m68k" and Dec's VAX still supported ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Supported by whom? NetBSD probably still runs on them, but the numbers
>>>>>of people using them and who need X are probably small, like Slackware
>>>>>and Mac OS X 10.1 users
>>>>
>>>>I don't know anything about X on VAX... but the m68k series of CPUs is
>>>>still used in embedded devices... so why list "arm" and not list "m68k"
>>>>?
>>>
>>>Because ARM is what's in a lot of PDAs like the iPAQ and the Zaurus, and
>>>Linux and X do run on those.
>>
>>It is moot unless/until we can figure out how to make this
>>change.  I spent 10 minutes looking yesterday, and failed to
>>find out where that field is stored.
> 
> 
> CC:'ing Dave Miller (one of the bugzilla gurus):
> 
> Justdave: Any idea how to add/change items to the "Platform" choice (and
> rename it to "Architecture") in a bugzilla installation
> (http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/query.cgi) ?

grovelling around in the source it appears to be in a column called 
rep_platform in some table somewhere...

I've got to go catch a plane, so that's all for now

--

Kaleb





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