X.org on embedded platforms - no PCI ?

[Michael Lorenz]

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Hello,

On Mar 25, 2008, at 13:23, Pavel Troller wrote:
> Hi!
>   I'm forwarding a question from my colleague. I'm sorry that I  
> don't have
> exact symptoms (X server logs etc.), but I hope that there may be a  
> general
> answer.
>   My colleague is developing Linux installation on an embedded  
> platform with
> PXA270 chipset. The text mode is fully functional, as well as the  
> framebuffer
> (pxafb). However, he is not able to get X to run, I was said that  
> "it complains
> that the PCI bus is missing". I don't know, whether it's during  
> compile time
> (missing pci headers) or during run time.
>   Is there a special configure flag to disable PCI, or how this  
> problem can be
> solved ?

Look at the platform-specific PCI code, on NetBSD it would throw a  
FatalError() if /dev/pci0 can't be opened which is completely bogus  
since we support a bunch of PCI-less machines with X ( think SBus )  
so I had to change that. I suspect you might have to do something  
similar.

have fun
Michael

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