From: Otto Wyss <otto.wyss@orpatec.ch>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 4/5][RFC] fbdev: Clean up framebuffer initialization
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:46:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <413972D0.EAC13CC4@orpatec.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200409041453.01644.adaplas@hotpop.com
"Antonino A. Daplas" wrote:
>
> Mainly cleanup, but also point #5. The i810fb, for instance, depends on agpgart, but
> agpgart gets initialized way after fbdev. The workaround is for i810fb to explicitly
> call intel_agp_init(). Besides the ugliness, forcibly initializing the agpgart subsystem
> out of sequence may cause problems.
>
Sorry if I interrupt without deeper knowledge but doesn't this sound
very strange? Why is a subsystem initialized much later than the one
which depends on it? Doesn't this look like a design error?
O. Wyss
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-04 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-04 3:08 [PATCH 4/5][RFC] fbdev: Clean up framebuffer initialization Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-04 3:08 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-04 3:36 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-09-04 6:53 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-04 6:53 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-04 7:46 ` Otto Wyss [this message]
2004-09-04 12:37 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-05 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-05 9:16 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-05 9:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-05 10:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-05 10:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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