--- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The patch is set up to allow each driver to individually control whether it wants a reset or not. In the patch only the radeon driver is requesting reset. The radeon driver checks the card to see if it has already been reset and then only asks for reset if needed. By default asking for reset is disabled. > > Alan > ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
