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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:38:51 -0800 (PST)
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
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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)

Best to ask the author of the i810 framebuffer driver. He can tell you his
need for AGP stuff. I CC.


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