From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
fbdev <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:37:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42199DD9.10807@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339105022023242e2fd9ce@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Smirl wrote:
> I haven't been able to come up with a reliable way to call a user
> space reset program from a driver's probe function except with an
> in-kernel emu86. Is there another way? I'd also like to try an find a
> solution that doesn't need to modify the 73 existing framebuffer
> drivers.
You either need to execute the video BIOS to initialize the hardware
registers, or initialize the hardware registers themselves.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-21 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-21 7:24 Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 8:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-02-21 16:52 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 17:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-21 17:27 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-21 17:33 ` Jon Smirl
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