From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: "Bryan W. Headley" <bwheadley@earthlink.net>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] XFree-4.2 and C110
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:10:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020630231013.C29045@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D1F1A32.7060407@earthlink.net>; from bwheadley@earthlink.net on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:48:18AM -0500
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:48:18AM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> The system appears to be looking in /proc/bus/pci to look for video
> cards and framebuffers, which is a bogus way to find video cards on a
> PC, too (VESA bus, ISA, EISA, MCA... where is that video card?)
Ugh.
> I'm not too fond of synthesizing a "pci" directory, and making up fake
> IDs for things that aren't PCI cards...
Well... it's a hack which we already kind of do, and won't need to
carry forward into 2.5. There's a fake PCI device per IOC, so maybe
this could be filled in by a gfx card. In 2.5, we'll have driverfs
and hopefully X won't have to tell the difference.
--
Revolutions do not require corporate support.
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2002-06-30 14:48 [parisc-linux] XFree-4.2 and C110 Bryan W. Headley
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