Re: PATCH: trident , pci_enable_device moved

[Andres Salomon <dilinger@mp3revolution.net>]

Oops, I saw "trident" and thought video.  Sorry, marcus.  :)

This is what I was told (it was only needed for secondary video
devices).  From that, I would expect that all video devices would
need it, just in case they happened to be the second card.  Am I
missing some subtlety in some of the video driers/chipsets that
wouldn't allow them to be used as a second video device (therefore
not requiring pci_enable_device)?


On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:04:55AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Just a warning; I was informed by Alan that doing this for video
> > drivers was unnecessary, since video devices were already enabled
> > during bootup.
> 
> To clarify:  the primary display device is enabled and initialized, and
> its video BIOS executed, when during BIOS startup and before the Linux
> kernel gets control.  All other display devices are not only not
> initialized, but they are disabled as well.
> 
> Marcus is doing sound ATM so I doubt this matters to him...
> 
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