Re: acpivga(4) v. MI display controls

2010-10-14 Thread Christoph Egger
On 15.10.10 01:50, David Young wrote: It's important to be able to control display switching and brightness, but I don't think that those functions should reside in acpivga(4) and acpiout(4) devices under acpi(4). For example, I read in somebody's dmesg today: acpivga0 at acpi0 (GFX0):

Re: acpivga(4) v. MI display controls

2010-10-14 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:50:30PM -0500, David Young wrote: Rather than attaching new nodes at acpi0, the system should let ACPI BIOS inform the autoconfiguration process, which should attach one or more instances of a new, MI device, display(4). For example: vga0 at pci0 device ...