From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:37:45 -0500
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To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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Jon Smirl wrote:
> I haven't been able to come up with a reliable way to call a user
> space reset program from a driver's probe function except with an
> in-kernel emu86. Is there another way? I'd also like to try an find a
> solution that doesn't need to modify the 73 existing framebuffer
> drivers.


You either need to execute the video BIOS to initialize the hardware 
registers, or initialize the hardware registers themselves.

	Jeff