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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:08:38 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [BK updates] fbdev changes updates.
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:45:10PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
 > The reason for this is we will see in the future embedded ix86
 > boards with things like i810 framebuffers with NO vga core. In this case
 > we will need a fbdev driver for a graphical console. Thus the agp code
 > must be started before the fbdev layer.

Can you explain exactly what the agpgart code is doing that needs
to be done earlier than framebuffer ? I don't see any reason for this
change. There should be no GART mappings until we've booted userspace
(except for the case of IOMMU)

		Dave

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