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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: legacy VGA device requirements (was: Exposing ROM's though sysfs)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:45:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092433504.24955.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408130911.29626.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>

On Gwe, 2004-08-13 at 17:11, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Maybe we need a display driver class?  Could we reuse the dri drivers for that 
> purpose?

Display and VGA devices do not correlate neatly. There are non VGA
devices we treat as video, and VGA devices we don't use when using the
hardware ourselves because its switched out of the video side (eg
on the Oxygen GMX)


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-13 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1091207136.2762.181.camel@rohan.arnor.net>
2004-07-30 17:24 ` Exposing ROM's though sysfs Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:14   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 20:26     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 22:36       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-03 21:41         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04  0:55           ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-04  0:59             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04  1:18               ` legacy VGA device requirements (was: Exposing ROM's though sysfs) Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 15:53                 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-13 16:11                   ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 21:45                     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-13 21:43                   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-13 23:56                     ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-14 15:27                       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-14 16:36                         ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-20  4:46                         ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-20  4:53                           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-20  5:03                             ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-20 11:14                           ` Alan Cox
2004-08-04  1:37               ` Exposing ROM's though sysfs Jon Smirl
2004-08-04  1:57                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04  2:16                   ` Jesse Barnes

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