From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261922AbVBUIil (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:38:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261924AbVBUIik (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:38:40 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:62164 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261922AbVBUIiM (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:38:12 -0500 Message-ID: <42199DD9.10807@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:37:45 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Smirl CC: lkml , fbdev , Greg KH Subject: Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware References: <9e47339105022023242e2fd9ce@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e47339105022023242e2fd9ce@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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