From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: ioremap problem on highmem
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:34:35 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031016003435.45380.qmail@web14912.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310160012230.13660-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
--- James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Another issue I am having trouble with is having mode setting/EDID code in
> a device driver. That is a lot of seldom used code sitting in a device
> driver.
>
> Prehaps but on platforms lacking firmware that sets the video mode this is
> a problem. A good example is most mips boxes. The prom almost nevers
> initializes the graphics cards. You have to set the video mode yourself.
> No way around it.
>
How about making a small driver with all of it's code marked __init that
initializes the mode on boxes with absolutely no support? That would be enough
to get us to the point where we can run user mode code and provide a more full
featured driver. The user mode driver would have full support for mode
setting/edid in user space libraries.
=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-16 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 19:18 ioremap problem on highmem Otto Solares
2003-10-13 20:30 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-14 0:14 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-14 0:46 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-14 1:56 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-14 4:51 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-15 1:13 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-15 1:37 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-15 23:11 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 10:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-16 16:56 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-17 16:58 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 8:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-14 8:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-14 14:42 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-14 17:25 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 17:23 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 16:49 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 17:59 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-15 23:17 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 0:34 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2003-10-16 10:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-16 0:43 ` I2C standalone vs integrated? Jon Smirl
2003-10-16 10:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 16:43 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 10:09 ` ioremap problem on highmem Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-15 16:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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