From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [BK updates] fbdev changes updates. Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:08:38 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021029200838.GA27552@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:45:10PM -0800, James Simmons wrote: > The reason for this is we will see in the future embedded ix86 > boards with things like i810 framebuffers with NO vga core. In this case > we will need a fbdev driver for a graphical console. Thus the agp code > must be started before the fbdev layer. Can you explain exactly what the agpgart code is doing that needs to be done earlier than framebuffer ? I don't see any reason for this change. There should be no GART mappings until we've booted userspace (except for the case of IOMMU) Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk