From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:39:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elvis.franken.de ([193.175.24.41]:9446 "EHLO elvis.franken.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23948808AbYK0Ljk (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:39:40 +0000 Received: from uucp (helo=solo.franken.de) by elvis.franken.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1L5fDe-0005Qg-00; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:39:38 +0100 Received: by solo.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DFFD2C3145; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:34:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:34:53 +0100 To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Vorobiev Dmitri , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MIPS] Remove unused header file gio.h Message-ID: <20081127113453.GA7618@alpha.franken.de> References: <1227706472-16219-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi> <20081127091619.GA6255@alpha.franken.de> <43787.88.114.226.209.1227781466.squirrel@webmail.movial.fi> <20081127103706.GA6929@alpha.franken.de> <20081127112234.GA20189@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081127112234.GA20189@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 21462 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:22:34AM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:37:06AM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > > first step is to introduce GIO devices similair to PCI devices. My > > current working GIO device is solid impact. I also looked at > > supporting Phobos G160 cards, but the current set of 2114x drivers > > is not useable for that... > > > > The big missing thing in the GIO framework right now is a bullet proof > > detection for non standard GIO cards, like newport and XZ cards. They > > don't provide ID information... > > So the resulting code will be a mix of normal probing bus code and > something like "GIO platform devices" which are just added if we somehow > "know" they're there? SGI never stops to amaze me ... Newport and XZ are probeable somehow, PROM and IRIX gfxinit are able to do that. I want to integrate the documented probing and the special probes into the GIO framework. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]