From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: jonsmirl@gmail.com, willy@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: multi-domain PCI and sysfs
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:16:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907211637.20de06f4.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409072115.09856.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:15:09 -0700
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 7, 2004 4:11 pm, David S. Miller wrote:
> > This is a real touchy area btw, because if there is no
> > VGA card, such I/O port accesses are going to trap and
> > we need to have a common way to handle that somehow.
>
> So I take it your platform won't soft fail the accesses and return all 1s?
Nope, you get a machine check trap. We have to catch these when doing
PCI config space accesses in the kernel too. Grep for pci_poke_* in
arch/sparc64/kernel/*.c
> A potentially cleaner option which Ben and I would prefer is to use
> the vga device Jon is creating to do legacy I/O with explicit
> read/write or ioctl calls.
Definitely. Note that xfree86 already has a signal handler for this
stuff, ppc generates traps like sparc64 too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-08 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-04 20:00 multi-domain PCI and sysfs Jon Smirl
2004-09-04 21:57 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-04 22:12 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-04 22:27 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-04 22:45 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-04 23:03 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-05 23:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-05 23:50 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-05 23:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-06 1:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-07 22:58 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-07 23:11 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 3:39 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-08 4:12 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 4:16 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-08 4:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-08 4:16 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-08 4:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-08 6:01 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-08 13:02 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-08 16:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-08 18:20 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 18:32 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-08 18:54 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 6:55 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-08 11:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-08 11:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-08 18:21 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-09 0:31 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-09 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-08 15:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-06 0:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-06 0:31 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-06 1:38 ` Jon Smirl
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