From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:16:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:16:27 -0400 Received: from ns.muni.cz ([147.251.4.33]:21422 "EHLO aragorn.ics.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:16:17 -0400 Newsgroups: cz.muni.redir.linux-kernel Path: news From: Zdenek Kabelac Subject: Spinlock for accessing graphical hardware (G400) Message-ID: <3B7AA05A.46C8EC03@i.am> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:16:26 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dual.fi.muni.cz Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: cs, en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-pre7-RTL3.0 i686) Organization: unknown To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost.localdomain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi I would like to know if there is any way, how could I create my own driver for the graphics card (G400) - I mean there are XFree, DRM, mga conscole and I want to se my own driver - but I really need something like common lock for accessing hardware registers. Is there any way how one could one achieve such thing on SMP machine ? Does anyone plan to add such thing ? (I do not want to add my driver to Drm nor to console device) thanks kabi