Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262216AbVBVGFh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:05:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262217AbVBVGFh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:05:37 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.203]:50329 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262216AbVBVGFb (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:05:31 -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=kkZG1MXjWAaM0ZSQaK6YvOBTpf0I6Rg3evTrMgL419uVGsWgwLteqPpP8ksivWNPf7XF7c4SfQcJeTFdYKBKUWl1dL4VCQ6+Ualr8Zmuh6BDDfq+SUQOpJPLKkmsrg0pwLxtMkd0ROM7i2Jiy+M7CUSJ1V/ZMwk+508mxKSfDQY= Message-ID: <9e473391050221220564235858@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:05:31 -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: 996 Lines: 22 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:13:36 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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 - 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/