From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
To: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>, adaplas@pol.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5][RFC] fbdev: Clean up framebuffer initialization
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:53:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409041453.01644.adaplas@hotpop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41393829.6020302@winischhofer.net>
On Saturday 04 September 2004 11:36, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> > 5. Because driver initialization will be dependent on the link order,
> > hardware that depends on other subsystems (agpgart, usb, serial, etc) may
> > choose to initialize after the subsystems they depend on.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
>
> I don't really see a benefit but it's ok with me.
>
Mainly cleanup, but also point #5. The i810fb, for instance, depends on agpgart, but
agpgart gets initialized way after fbdev. The workaround is for i810fb to explicitly
call intel_agp_init(). Besides the ugliness, forcibly initializing the agpgart subsystem
out of sequence may cause problems.
With this change, in theory, I can move i810fb's link order so it gets initialized after
agpgart.
> (Thanks for considering the "unified" nature of sisfb, by the way. Very
> considarate. Very much appreciated.)
>
> I assume that you tested this stuff before posting it here.
Yes, with hardware that I have. I did try to at least compile test what I can.
Tony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-04 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-04 3:08 [PATCH 4/5][RFC] fbdev: Clean up framebuffer initialization Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-04 3:36 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-09-04 6:53 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2004-09-04 7:46 ` Otto Wyss
2004-09-04 12:37 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-05 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-05 9:50 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-05 10:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-05 10:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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