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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@mp3revolution.net>
Cc: Marcus Meissner <Marcus.Meissner@caldera.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: trident , pci_enable_device moved
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:04:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AE6E797.A31803BE@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010425090438.A12672@caldera.de> <20010425130624.A3216@caldera.de> <20010425104949.A31649@mp3revolution.net>

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...

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | The difference between America and England is that
Building 1024    | the English think 100 miles is a long distance and
MandrakeSoft     | the Americans think 100 years is a long time.
                 |      (random fortune)

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-25 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-25  7:04 PATCH: trident , pci_enable_device moved Marcus Meissner
2001-04-25 11:06 ` Marcus Meissner
2001-04-25 14:49   ` Andres Salomon
2001-04-25 15:04     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-04-25 15:24       ` Andres Salomon
2001-04-25 15:35         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-27  9:33           ` Eric W. Biederman

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