From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VGA handling was [Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses]
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:14:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010615151415.A37@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15145.19442.773217.177804@pizda.ninka.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106141650490.12951-100000@transvirtual.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106141650490.12951-100000@transvirtual.com>; from jsimmons@transvirtual.com on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:55:31PM -0700
Hi!
> Yes I know. Also each card needs it own special functions to handle
> programming the CRTC, SEQ registers etc. Perhaps for real multihead
> support I guess the user will have to use fbdev. vgacon can just exist for
> single head systems. I guess it is time to let vga go. It is old technology.
It is still faster than fbdev, and not all cards have fbdev drivers. This
should work with any vga card, right?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-16 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-13 10:02 Going beyond 256 PCI buses Tom Gall
2001-06-13 17:17 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-13 18:29 ` Tom Gall
2001-06-14 14:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 15:15 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 17:59 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-14 20:50 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-14 14:24 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 14:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 14:42 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 15:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 15:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 18:01 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-14 18:47 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 19:04 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-14 19:12 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 19:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 20:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 20:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 21:48 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 22:12 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 22:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 22:49 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 23:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-14 23:35 ` VGA handling was [Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses] James Simmons
2001-06-14 23:42 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 23:55 ` James Simmons
2001-06-15 15:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-06-15 2:06 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-15 8:52 ` Matan Ziv-Av
2001-06-14 21:35 ` Going beyond 256 PCI buses David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-16 21:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-16 23:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-06-15 8:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-06-15 15:38 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 19:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 20:56 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 15:13 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-14 15:17 ` Jeff Garzik
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