1st pass at supporting the altix platform for Xorg.

[Jesse Barnes]

On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:54 pm, Shrijeet Mukherjee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have added a bug and attached a patch for supporting the Altix
> (itanium-linux) platform under Xorg.
>
> The bug (and patch) is at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2373
>
> The highlights of the change, for which I need feedback about are ..
>
> 1. Turning on a DomainSupport for the IA64 platform.
> 2. Using a legacyIO api that is available only from linux-2.6.11 onwards
> (failure      to find these interfaces makes the Xserver revert to the
> current code paths)
> 3. Creating a pciBusAddrToHostAddr function for allowing drivers to examine
> the /proc/bus/pci interface to convert bus addrs to host addrs to catch the
> case of machines that do not have all IO mapped in the low 4GB. (again if
> all the IO is in the low memory things should just work right)

Anyone interested in taking a look at this?  I know we're not going to make 
the 6.8.2 release, but it would be nice to have it in HEAD.

Thanks,
Jesse