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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu>, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] ACPI/Intel: Rework Opregion support
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:32:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110315133240.GA5471@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110315133055.GA33193@dspnet.fr>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:30:55PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:52:26AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Now that we've got multiple consumers it's probably not helpful to move 
> > the (potentially chip-specific) VBT handling to general code. We've got 
> > zero documentation on how GMA500 handles VBT, and not a great deal more 
> > for i915.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "handles".  If you mean find it, the
> gma500 driver code reads a 32-bit pointer to the opregion at offset
> 0xfc in the pci configuration space.  If you mean parse it, I haven't
> seen anything that looked different to what the current kernel code
> parses.

Opregion is one mechanism to provide VBT - it doesn't define it.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22 20:03 [PATCH 1/2] ACPI/Intel: Rework Opregion support Matthew Garrett
2011-02-22 20:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: Use generic IGD opregion code for gma500 Matthew Garrett
2011-02-22 21:15   ` Alan Cox
2011-03-03  2:14   ` Len Brown
2011-03-03  2:16     ` Len Brown
2011-03-03 11:43       ` Alan Cox
2011-03-03 11:43     ` Alan Cox
2011-03-03 13:07       ` Matthew Garrett
2011-03-03 12:52         ` Alan Cox
2011-02-22 20:18 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] ACPI/Intel: Rework Opregion support Jesse Barnes
2011-03-03  2:14 ` Len Brown
2011-03-14 17:59 ` [PATCH] " Chris Wilson
2011-03-15  1:18   ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-15  1:52     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-03-15 13:30       ` [Intel-gfx] " Olivier Galibert
2011-03-15 13:32         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-03-15 13:40           ` Olivier Galibert
2011-03-15 13:43             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-03-15  8:37     ` Chris Wilson
2011-03-15 11:13       ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-15 11:27         ` Peter Stuge
2011-03-15 11:46           ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-15 16:06             ` Alex Deucher
2011-03-16  0:02               ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-16  2:17                 ` Alex Deucher
2011-03-16  6:26                   ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-16 14:11                     ` Jerome Glisse
2011-03-16  3:46       ` Dave Airlie

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