From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
fbdev <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:37:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42199DD9.10807@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339105022023242e2fd9ce@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Smirl wrote:
> I haven't been able to come up with a reliable way to call a user
> space reset program from a driver's probe function except with an
> in-kernel emu86. Is there another way? I'd also like to try an find a
> solution that doesn't need to modify the 73 existing framebuffer
> drivers.
You either need to execute the video BIOS to initialize the hardware
registers, or initialize the hardware registers themselves.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-21 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-21 7:24 Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 7:24 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 8:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-02-21 16:52 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 16:52 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 17:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-21 17:27 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 17:27 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 17:33 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 17:33 ` Jon Smirl
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=42199DD9.10807@pobox.com \
--to=jgarzik@pobox.com \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=jonsmirl@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.