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Subject: Re: legacy VGA device requirements (was: Exposing ROM's though
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
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On Sad, 2004-08-14 at 00:56, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I know internally how to find the VGA cards using the PCI class. I
> meant this in the context of how do you enumerate all of the VGA
> devices in a domain from a user space app. What is the API for this?
> What is the user space API for turning off all of the VGA devices in a
> domain?

I don't follow the logic behind the question. Once you have the vga
locking device then that needs to handle the vga on/off.