From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [BK updates] fbdev changes updates.
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:08:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021029200838.GA27552@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210291240170.14451-100000@maxwell.earthlink.net>
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:45:10PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> The reason for this is we will see in the future embedded ix86
> boards with things like i810 framebuffers with NO vga core. In this case
> we will need a fbdev driver for a graphical console. Thus the agp code
> must be started before the fbdev layer.
Can you explain exactly what the agpgart code is doing that needs
to be done earlier than framebuffer ? I don't see any reason for this
change. There should be no GART mappings until we've booted userspace
(except for the case of IOMMU)
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-29 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-29 20:45 [BK updates] fbdev changes updates James Simmons
2002-10-29 20:08 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-10-29 22:07 ` James Simmons
2002-10-29 22:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-29 22:38 ` James Simmons
2002-10-30 5:32 ` Antonino Daplas
2002-10-29 20:46 ` James Simmons
2002-10-29 20:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-29 22:08 ` James Simmons
2002-10-29 21:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-29 22:23 ` James Simmons
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