From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: POSTing of video cards (WAS: Solo Xgl..)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:03:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910502212203671eec73@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109049217.5412.79.camel@gaston>
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:13:36 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:56 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> I think that the driver is the "chief" here and the one to know what to
> do with the cards it drives. It can detect a non-POSTed card and deal
> with it.
What about the x86 case of VGA devices that run without a driver being
loaded? Do we force people to load an fbdev driver to get the reset?
The BIOS deficiency strategy works for these devices.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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2005-02-22 3:12 ` POSTing of video cards (WAS: Solo Xgl..) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 4:42 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-22 5:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 19:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 19:38 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-22 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 4:56 ` Alex Deucher
2005-02-22 5:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 6:03 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2005-02-22 6:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 6:42 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-22 6:52 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-22 6:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-28 14:36 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-28 16:06 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2005-02-28 16:47 ` Keith Packard
2005-02-22 6:05 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-22 6:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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