From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, airlied@gmail.com,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] powerpc: Fix mmap of PCI resource with hack for X
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:02:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163473371.5940.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455926C0.9080906@us.ibm.com>
> > So the gist of your change is that X isn't obtaining BAR values
> > in the correct context on powerpc, and so you're going to hack up
> > the "devices" files output to "help" X out.
> >
> > This doesn't sound sane to me.
>
> It doesn't sound terribly sane to me. What's wrong with just opening
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/resource[0-5]? It seems like that solves all the
> problems.
We have to, that's how we get current X to work. Of course it will be
much better once X uses sysfs, no question about that.
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-14 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-13 8:16 [PATCH/RFC] powerpc: Fix mmap of PCI resource with hack for X Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-14 0:31 ` David Miller
2006-11-14 1:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-14 5:07 ` David Miller
2006-11-14 5:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-14 2:15 ` Ian Romanick
2006-11-14 3:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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