... I got my compositor to run on #NetBSD. I fixed the kernel panic I was running into by deciding the change I had made to ioctl permissions constituted putting beans in my nose.
I then went back and added a GET_PCIINFO ioctl like what OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD use (but slightly different) and modded libdrm to match.
And it worked. It even let me fire up a terminal emulator window, which is further than I got last time. I'm going to clean up patches and hop on tech-kern later (but soon).
Jeff
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