On Friday 10 June 2005 19:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Anyway, I really want a slightly different approach than what Jon is > doing, that is a 3 modules scenario: > > - A basic "stub" module that attaches to the PCI card. It doesn't touch > the hardware per-se (thus won't break your VGA console, though radeonfb > without fb console shouldn't either, the problem you have is a bug). > That stub contains the "common" code like IRQ handling, card type > detection, maybe vram detection etc... And some locking facility
See this is what I was thinking, was that there was an "fb" layer below radeonfb/atyfb/whatever, or alternately that there was a generic pci handler for each device. Apparently radeonfb is the lowest level right now. - ajax
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