From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267258AbUHOXlZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:41:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267253AbUHOXlZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:41:25 -0400 Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie ([136.201.105.4]:35067 "EHLO holly.csn.ul.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267258AbUHOXlM (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:41:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:40:43 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie X-X-Sender: airlied@skynet To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20040815133432.A1750@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20040815133432.A1750@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:19:31PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Graphics, and the DRM now uses PCI properly if no framebuffer is loaded > > (it falls back if framebuffer is enabled...), > > Can you explain what this means? > Probably should say PCI APIs properly, it now does enable/disable devices and registers the DRM as owning the memory regions, does proper PCI probing .. in cases where the fb is loaded on the card already it falls back to the old ways (evil direct register writing.. ), this change will stop you loading the fb driver adter the drm driver but this shouldn't be a common case at all.. Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person