From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Peter Jones" <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: "Matthew Garrett" <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
"Dave Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 18:05:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910605041505x69a6637fn1d32151fb63ef5a3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146779821.27727.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 5/4/06, Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:48 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > Let me be clear here. A lot of laptop video hardware does not have a
> > video ROM.
>
> Why do you assume we're only talking about laptops?
Because when you make statements like...
> Except to enable the BAR and read it from the assigned address...
That statement doesn't hold true for laptops. It indicates that you
may not be aware of all of the issues around VGA bus routing and video
ROMs. For example there are a lot of special issues with VGA support
in large large machines like the SGI Altix that have multiple
independent PCI domains. Owners of all of these other architectures
(PPC especially) having been beating me up for two years making me
aware of all of their weird cases.
>
> --
> Peter
>
>
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-04 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-29 8:46 Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-29 8:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-29 8:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-29 9:04 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-02 16:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-05-02 16:21 ` Greg KH
2006-05-02 16:51 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-05-04 19:09 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-05-04 19:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-04 19:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-05-04 19:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-05-04 20:40 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-04 21:05 ` Peter Jones
2006-05-04 21:17 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-04 21:29 ` Peter Jones
2006-05-04 21:37 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-04 21:38 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-04 23:22 ` Peter Jones
2006-05-05 19:20 ` Ian Romanick
2006-05-05 20:14 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-05 20:26 ` Greg KH
2006-05-05 20:35 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-05 20:43 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-05 21:10 ` Greg KH
2006-05-05 21:06 ` Greg KH
2006-05-05 21:15 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-05 22:27 ` Greg KH
2006-05-06 0:05 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-06 1:57 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-06 3:39 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-06 12:42 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-06 13:08 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-06 18:10 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-06 18:24 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-06 23:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-07 5:56 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-05-07 12:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-07 19:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-05-08 0:03 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-07 13:12 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-08 14:26 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-05-08 14:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 4:06 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-08 5:27 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-07 8:54 ` Adam Belay
2006-05-14 0:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-14 0:56 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-14 23:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-15 0:14 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-14 0:57 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-05-14 1:11 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-04 21:18 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-04 21:38 ` Peter Jones
2006-05-04 21:48 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-04 21:57 ` Peter Jones
2006-05-04 22:05 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2006-05-04 19:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-15 2:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-02 16:38 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-02 16:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-02 16:59 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-02 17:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-02 17:13 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-02 18:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-02 19:00 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-02 19:29 ` Peter Jones
2006-05-02 21:40 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-02 21:52 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-02 23:36 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-03 0:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-05-03 0:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-03 1:24 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-03 1:30 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-03 6:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-03 13:23 ` Jon Smirl
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