From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:01:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107170461.14847.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050128200010.GJ28246@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Gwe, 2005-01-28 at 20:00, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Possibly a better solution (less likely to break things) would be to allow
> drivers to reserve the 10-bit aliases too. Something like this:
>
> static inline void request_isa_alias_regions(unsigned long start,
> unsigned long n, const char *name)
> {
> int base;
> for (base = 0x400; base < 0x10000; base += 0x400) {
> request_region(base + start, n, name);
> }
> }
>
> and then call that in drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
Almost every x86 I/O device in ISA space has this problem so it would be
better if request_region learned to take a decode mask instead of adding
another 500 entries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-31 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 3:43 Jon Smirl
2005-01-18 17:46 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-18 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-18 21:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-22 19:04 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 17:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-24 17:53 ` Jesse Barnes
[not found] ` <41ED3BD2.1090105@pobox.com>
[not found] ` <9e473391050122083822a7f81c@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200501240847.51208.jbarnes@sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20050124175131.GM31455@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
2005-01-24 19:17 ` Fwd: " Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-24 19:55 ` Russell King
2005-01-24 23:11 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-25 4:24 ` Greg KH
2005-01-27 9:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-27 16:28 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 17:32 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 18:36 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-28 19:15 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 19:26 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-28 19:34 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 18:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 19:33 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 19:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 20:12 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 20:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-28 20:07 ` Russell King
2005-01-31 16:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-02-01 6:38 ` Greg KH
2005-02-01 16:24 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-30 7:51 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 20:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-24 20:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
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