Comment 21 for bug 180742

On 2/3/08, bartman <email address hidden> wrote:
> I should add that I got scolded on the X.org mailing list for producing
> a patch that is not x-platform. I had no idea that the x86emu was
> required on non-x86 platforms. So, I am extending the patch to return
> 486dx2 CPUID values on non-x86 platforms. More in this thread...
>
> http://wiki.hungrycats.org/mediawiki/index.php/Bartman%27s_Question#and_the_result_is
>
> A LUG-buddy offered to resurrect his old 486 to get me the right values.
>
> http://wiki.hungrycats.org/mediawiki/index.php/Bartman%27s_Question#and_the_result_is

The build log for my PPA shows that the server fails to build on the
AMD64 platform when the CPUID patch is applied:

https://launchpad.net/~q-funk/+archive/+builds?build_text=&build_state=failed

It successfully built on LPIA and i386, though.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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