From: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/22] Make SVGA oriented FBs work on multi-domain PCI
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102170920.15700.linux@rainbow-software.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110111.154846.233419170.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thursday 17 February 2011, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:24 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:21:20 +0000
> >
> > > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:01 +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > >> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > >>
> > >> Just tested arkfb and s3fb and they seem to still work fine (on x86)
> > >> with these changes.
> > >
> > > Hmm, that's odd. The exact same driver with the updates crashes on
> > > sparc hardware. So far, I've not been able to figure out why it does.
> >
> > We know why it does, because sparc systems do not initialize the VGA
> > hardware in the BIOS the way a PC will.
> >
> > That's the whole gist of the most recent thread we had where we were
> > trying to diagnose your crashes.
> >
> > We simply haven't figured out the magic that will get this to work.
> >
> > So it's perfectly fine and expected that platforms where these drivers
> > worked before, still work fine.
>
> OK, I'd forgotten that the VGA hardware needs initialising.
Playing with (at least) S3 initialization is on my todo list.
--
Ondrej Zary
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 23:48 [PATCH 0/22] Make SVGA oriented FBs work on multi-domain PCI David Miller
2011-01-12 0:20 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12 0:22 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 1:30 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12 2:14 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12 2:29 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 4:27 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 4:51 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 7:17 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-01-12 23:43 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-17 4:30 ` David Miller
2011-01-22 4:11 ` David Miller
2011-01-22 10:55 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-16 23:01 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-02-16 23:21 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-16 23:24 ` David Miller
2011-02-16 23:37 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-17 8:20 ` Ondrej Zary [this message]
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