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From: Kronos <kronos@people.it>
To: John Zielinski <grim@undead.cc>
Cc: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: radeonfb_pci_register video memory clear?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:27:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040619192744.GA3979@dreamland.darkstar.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D3A2E1.2060100@undead.cc>

Il Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:20:17PM -0400, John Zielinski ha scritto: 
> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
> I'm just wondering why the clearing of video memory was added to 
> radeonfb_pci_register? 

AFAIK without that radeonfb will display the content of the memory as
random garbage.

Luca
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-19 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-19  2:20 radeonfb_pci_register video memory clear? John Zielinski
2004-06-19 19:27 ` Kronos [this message]
2004-06-19 19:46   ` John Zielinski
2004-06-23 15:56     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-23 16:07       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-23 15:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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