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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:05:31 -0500
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: POSTing of video cards (WAS: Solo Xgl..)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:13:36 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> What we can/should provide, is a ncie helper to do the job once the
> driver decides to have a go at it. I think userspace is the right
> solution, similar to the firmware loader helpers, as I wrote earlier.
> There are a few issues related on trying to run these before / is
> mounted or during the sleep process, but those are things I plan to work
> on & fix sooner or later. (Which is also why it has to be an
> asynchronous API, so that the helper can call back "later" when the
> helper has been found).

Can a userspace solution solve the problem of cards that need to be
posted when they are coming out of suspend?

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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