On 15 Jan 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 14 Jan 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > > Yes but you should not need to know which device it is. > > > > > Looking at the code though there is a bug. When it finds a device > > > to give the legacy vga resources to it does not allocate any MMIO > > > resources. For bridges this is a normal resource so this looks > > > a real bug in the generic code. If that is why you need > > > the vgadev, let's fix the generic code to handle that part properly. > > > > yes, that's the bug. I waffled between a generic fix and the simple fix I > > outlined, but if you want the generic fix we can look at that too. > > Please. Mostly it requires finding the vga card first and giving it > the appropriate resource, in a format the resource allocator can > understand. > > This is a subset of a more general case that working on the superio code > made me realize needs to be done. Ultimately we need to make a scan > of devices with known programming interfaces and to assign them legacy > resources. serial ports, parallel ports, ide, etc. But vga is a > good first small step.
The second problem is that the PCIO is not correctly set up for legacy vga either. OK, we'll look. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
