On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:47:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:26:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Do you know if anything beyond that could use NVIDIA GPUs? I was > >> assuming that powerpc, etc., just wouldn't have the hardware. > > > Actually powerpc is probably the most likely to have this, apple sold > > macs with ati and nvidia graphics before switching to x86. There are > > other archs with a PCI bus, but I'm not sure which ones exactly. > > Hm, maybe I should go about this the other way around. > > Of our current architectures, I'd say that the following are too old and > too server-focused when they existed to have NVIDIA graphics cards: > > alpha hppa ia64 sparc > dannf was using an nvidia chip on ia64, see e.g. #464068.
> and the following exist only on hardware that is fairly unlikely to have > NVIDIA GPUs: > > s390 > > So that leaves: > > i386 amd64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 armel mips mipsel powerpc > > mips was the one that the original bug report was asking us to remove, so > I'd be inclined to pull mips and mipsel and leave the rest. I'm not sure > armel should be there, but I can possibly see someone making a netbook > with an NVIDIA GPU and an arm chip. > I don't know if it's worth the hassle. We build most X drivers, including xserver-xorg-video-nv, on everything except s390 (because that doesn't have any actual hardware, so just builds xserver-xorg-video-dummy). Cheers, Julien
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