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From: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] set altix preferred console
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:44:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051003144408.GK3264@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050930200422.GD13855@sgi.com>

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 03:20:11PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
| I think what *should* happen is that we should discover VGA
| devices by PCI enumeration, and the iobase/membase information
| would come from the ACPI description of the PCI root bridges.
| Then we could support multiple VGA devices, and the PCDP could
| point to one of them to be used as the console.
| 
| The VGA code in the kernel is a long ways from that.  But your
| firmware should provide the vga_console_{iobase,membase} data
| somewhere besides the PCDP.  Can you do something in ia64/sn
| to dig it out?

Thanks for the info and suggestion, Bjorn.  I think we should be able to
come up with something in sn-specific code.  I'll talk to our I/O guys
and see what we can come up with.

Greg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-03 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-30 20:04 [PATCH] set altix preferred console Greg Edwards
2005-09-30 21:20 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-10-03 14:44 ` Greg Edwards [this message]
2005-10-04 15:04 ` Mark Maule
2005-10-04 19:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-10-04 20:46 ` Mark Maule
2005-10-11 20:00 ` Mark Maule
2005-10-11 21:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-10-11 21:31 ` Mark Maule
2005-10-11 21:57 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-10-12 18:55 ` Mark Maule
2005-10-13 13:10 ` Greg Edwards
2005-10-18 17:06 ` Luck, Tony
2005-10-18 18:33 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-10-18 18:39 ` Mark Maule
2005-11-11 17:52 ` Mark Maule

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