Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

James Simmons
2005-02-04T22:11:10Z

> Jon does your emulator sit on top of the new legacy I/O and memory APIs? I
> added them for this very reason, though atm only ia64 supports them. There's
> documentation in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt if you want to take
> a look. On kernels that support it, sysfs can be a one stop shop for all
> your gfx programming needs, since it provides access to the rom, PCI
> resources (i.e. MMIO ranges, fb memory, etc.) and legacy I/O ports and
> memory.

Thanks for the info. Actually the is what /sys/bus/graphics is for. I'm
working on some patchs to migrate the fbdev subsystem to using it.