Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262212AbVBVGDV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:03:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262213AbVBVGDV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:03:21 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.194]:19338 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262212AbVBVGDS (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:03:18 -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=gdvvEqHvm8gb/gJnKUgFQO74Zf2cI9u6kruzguWCAnJibTdw+UCfSH93L7jfOsLHxu9MTd0Hj8UXSmK46tXp8dL5kfaMuuqo0Ba4EvwbXb6a9KPv0EXmxc+on4k9v9Qbr95tfWkdlkftW0O4LZYDr41gCtAED0hCKjgq9faYfIU= Message-ID: <9e4733910502212203671eec73@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:03:17 -0500 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: POSTing of video cards (WAS: Solo Xgl..) Cc: Alex Deucher , Dave Airlie , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel list , xorg@lists.freedesktop.org In-Reply-To: <1109049217.5412.79.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <21d7e997050220150030ea5a68@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910502201542afb35f7@mail.gmail.com> <1108973275.5326.8.camel@gaston> <9e47339105022111082b2023c2@mail.gmail.com> <1109019855.5327.28.camel@gaston> <9e4733910502211717116a4df3@mail.gmail.com> <1109041968.5412.63.camel@gaston> <1109049217.5412.79.camel@gaston> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 19 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:13:36 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:56 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: > I think that the driver is the "chief" here and the one to know what to > do with the cards it drives. It can detect a non-POSTed card and deal > with it. What about the x86 case of VGA devices that run without a driver being loaded? Do we force people to load an fbdev driver to get the reset? The BIOS deficiency strategy works for these devices. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - 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/