From: "Jordan Crouse" <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Geode patches for 2.6.17
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:07:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060623210712.GE13017@cosmic.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151088069.4549.72.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 23/06/06 19:41 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-06-23 am 11:00 -0600, ysgrifennodd Jordan Crouse:
> > Add a configuration option to avoid automatically probing VGA
>
> Can you not do this automatically using the DMI data or PCI subvendor
> id ?
This option actually disables VGA probing kernel wide - it essentially
skips all of video.S during boot, and then disallows any drivers that may
depend on that data (VGA console being the prime example).
While I am about 85% sure that probing the missing VGA/VESA registers will
not cause any problems, the values read will be nonsense, and I wanted to
avoid the possibility that any part of the code will blindly use the
returned data without checking it.
The option is triggered off of EMBEDDED, and I felt it would be buried
deep enough to not cause heartburn to the casual user.
Jordan
--
Jordan Crouse
Senior Linux Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
<www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-23 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-23 17:00 [GIT PATCH] Geode patches for 2.6.17 Jordan Crouse
2006-06-23 17:00 ` Jordan Crouse
2006-06-23 18:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-23 21:07 ` Jordan Crouse [this message]
2006-06-23 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-23 20:56 ` Jordan Crouse
2006-06-23 20:56 ` Jordan Crouse
2006-06-23 21:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-23 21:19 ` Alan Cox
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