From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262033AbVBUQxG (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:53:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262038AbVBUQxF (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:53:05 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.195]:59750 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262033AbVBUQxC (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:53:02 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=M+998Z/UPabpTKi6zios4PrAEnZ+7TFog7yXTDqmiOQBZyxyamD8HWQrr5MGK8LMwfBu2XGBAZwMbrskrtiDNmBe8n34i/pY8yb/nqBV09gto90MiQ9RLM2DsNwpGBSe60oaG/dEBpEtF5+Fj2E3RrAWHBZqdxeRxWMotEYJRBU= Message-ID: <9e47339105022108527e3c679d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:52:27 -0500 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware Cc: lkml , fbdev , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <42199DD9.10807@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <9e47339105022023242e2fd9ce@mail.gmail.com> <42199DD9.10807@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:37:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > You either need to execute the video BIOS to initialize the hardware > registers, or initialize the hardware registers themselves. That is what the user mode reset program does. The problem is, how do I get it to run before calling the device's probe function? Most of the framebuffer drivers assume that the hardware has already been reset in their probe code. > > Jeff > > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com