Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:05:08 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:21379 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:05:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE6E797.A31803BE@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:04:55 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andres Salomon Cc: Marcus Meissner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: trident , pci_enable_device moved In-Reply-To: <20010425090438.A12672@caldera.de> <20010425130624.A3216@caldera.de> <20010425104949.A31649@mp3revolution.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andres Salomon wrote: > Just a warning; I was informed by Alan that doing this for video > drivers was unnecessary, since video devices were already enabled > during bootup. To clarify: the primary display device is enabled and initialized, and its video BIOS executed, when during BIOS startup and before the Linux kernel gets control. All other display devices are not only not initialized, but they are disabled as well. Marcus is doing sound ATM so I doubt this matters to him... -- Jeff Garzik | The difference between America and England is that Building 1024 | the English think 100 miles is a long distance and MandrakeSoft | the Americans think 100 years is a long time. | (random fortune) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/