From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
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, 04 May 2006 19:22:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146784923.4581.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910605041438q5bf3569bs129bf2e8851b7190@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:38 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> # cd /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0
> # echo 1 >rom
> # hexdump -C rom
>
> As far as I know this works on every platform, not just the PC one.
Yep, you're right, this works. So we don't necessarily need it for the
vbetool case. X still could use it though, instead of their scary
poke-at-memory way.
> Don't mess around with the hardware trying to get to the ROM. Use the
> API provided by the kernel. Messing with the hardware will get it into
> a state that the kernel doesn't know about and can ultimately crash
> your system.
Exactly who do you see here messing with the hardware directly instead
of using kernel APIs?
--
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-04 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-29 8:46 Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access 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 [this message]
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
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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