On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 19:42, Jon Smirl wrote: > The main purpose of this patch is to provide DRM driver support for initializing > secondary adapters. This will all us to remove the corresponding code from > Xfree.
As Alan pointed out on IRC, it won't. But providing the means to do it cleanly is certainly good basically. The question is exactly where it belongs. I suggested to do this work on a branch for the time being, and got zero feedback. I don't know what that's supposed to mean; some people take silence as approval, but I don't. > 2) vga_enable ioctl - this is used when reseting a card. Resetting a card > enables it VGA support so it is bad news if your reset a secondary card without > first disabling the primary VGA one. This ioctl disables all VGA devices. Then > you can reset the card. Then call the ioctl again to restore the initial VGA > device. What will happen if userland fails to restore it? -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- 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
