Re: [BK updates] fbdev changes updates.

Dave Jones
2002-10-29T20:04:15Z

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:45:10PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> The reason for this is we will see in the future embedded ix86
> boards with things like i810 framebuffers with NO vga core. In this case
> we will need a fbdev driver for a graphical console. Thus the agp code
> must be started before the fbdev layer.

Can you explain exactly what the agpgart code is doing that needs
to be done earlier than framebuffer ? I don't see any reason for this
change. There should be no GART mappings until we've booted userspace
(except for the case of IOMMU)

Dave

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