On Llu, 2004-03-15 at 17:53, Jon Smirl wrote: > adapters installed. A much better fix for this would be to alter the Linux > kernel to initialize these adapters during the very beginning of the boot > process before entering protected mode. This is really a BIOS shortcoming that > we are trying to fix in user space.
In many situations initialising the other devices is actually the wrong thing to do. Some hardware (eg Voodoo4500) also doesnt allow int10 virtualisation. > in user space. Mucking with PCI bridges from user space seems very risky to me. > The patch uses the kernel entry points to muck with the bridges. Its horribly risky with hotplug agreed > There is no universal solution for all platforms. Right now framebuffer doesn't > address secondary adapters, so I wouldn't be surprised if they took some of the Wrong. Matroxfb, Nvidia and sstfb all work secondary just fine. I believe the non merged Geode and VIA fb code also does. Alan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
