Hi, Alex Villacís Lasso escreveu: > Alex Deucher escribió: >>> So, lets say I want to add this support back. Is this squarely a >>> libpciaccess change, or do I have to place this on the xserver (since >>> this is specifically a VGA requirement)? Is anyone currently working on >>> this, by any chance (just to avoid duplicating work). Any suggestions on >>> the proper API to expose from libpciaccess? Are there any official docs >>> on bridge chipsets, besides the actual source code of old xservers? >>> >> Ideally it would be done in the kernel to be used with libpciaccess. >> Tiago and Paulo have been working on it: >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-October/029507.html >> I'm not sure what the current status is. As for documents, your best >> bet is probably hw reference guides from the vendors who make the PCI >> chipsets (AMD/VIA/Intel/etc.). Most are available. >> > I have collected a few patches. However, the referenced repositories are > now 404. Would it be acceptable to skip a kernel implementation for now > and instead just modify xserver/libpciaccess to provide a level of > functionality similar to pre-1.5 ?
The last informations regarding the arbiter are here: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/VgaArbiter I double-checked the links on this wiki. All looks good. Also, there's a nice reading for you here: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/vignatti/papers/vignatti-wso08.pdf Good luck. Cheers, -- Tiago Vignatti C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre www.c3sl.ufpr.br _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg