On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:53:27PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > The setup-bus code doesn't work correctly for configurations > > with more than one display adapter in the same PCI domain. > > This stuff actually is a leftover of an early 2.4 PCI setup code > > and apparently it stopped working after some "bridge_ctl" changes. > > So the best thing we can do is just to remove it and rely on the fact > > that any firmware *has* to configure VGA port forwarding for the boot > > display device properly. > > What happens when there is no firmware?
I helped test/add bridge_ctl patch but PARISC general does NOT support VGA at this time. > I'm sure this code would not have been added had there not been a reason > for it. Do we know why it was added? It was a replacement for the previous hacks and should represent essentially the same functionality. I suspect we just didn't care about (or test) multiheaded gfx at the time. Certainly not on parisc. This was in 2000/2001 timeframe originally. grant - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
