Re: other platforms and Linux compile...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 00:13:59 +0100 (BST)


> X11 is a pain, unless you're Miguel and/or blessed with copious
> hardware docs. =)

Really. X11 sort of worked first time on the MacII. But then thats what
the generic dumb frame buffer code gets you on those kind of machines.

A lot depends on how different the platform is. You want to start with the
idea that "This is a bit like the xyz box" (cut and paste) and the disk
is sort of like that "cut and paste", and if I tweak this generic driver
code a bit "twiddle twiddle" then it'll support my platform too

make zImage
boot
go party ;)

Alan