From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide control of active VGA device on PCI systems
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:35:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910502200835130012d6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108887831.19402.20.camel@gaston>
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:23:51 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> (The goal is to have X stop messing around with PCI at all, just probe
> things via sysfs or whatever new model we might provide, but not
> actually play with PCI resources directly nor modify bridge VGA enables,
> and have it properly arbitrate with anything else wanting to use the VGA
> IOs, including kernel services like vgacon).
That's the goal. Make X behave so that it will play nice with hotplug.
I also want to get it to run without needing root priv.
My goal is to provide a foundation for XGL/mesa-solo. That needs
support from fbdev for mode setting, cursors, reset, multiple heads.
Long term this provides a unified video driver model.
Check out the other thread about sysfs support for fbdev and let me
know what you think.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-20 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-20 5:50 [PATCH] Provide control of active VGA device on PCI systems Jon Smirl
2005-02-20 7:07 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-22 18:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-22 20:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-22 21:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:42 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-20 8:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-20 16:35 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2005-02-22 4:07 ` James Simmons
2005-02-24 6:14 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-22 4:13 ` James Simmons
2005-02-22 4:47 ` Jon Smirl
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