Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261235AbVBVUq1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261236AbVBVUq1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:27 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:56481 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261235AbVBVUqW (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:46:40 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: dtor_core@ameritech.net cc: Jon Smirl , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Dave Airlie , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, xorg@lists.freedesktop.org, Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: POSTing of video cards (WAS: Solo Xgl..) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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> <9e473391050221204215a079e1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 20 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > This sounds awfully like firmware loader that seems to be working just > fine for a range of network cards and other devices. Yes. HOWEVER - and note how firmware loading for this case is not validly done at device discovery, but at "ifconfig" time. Ie device discovery (probing) is a _separate_ phase entirely, and happens much earlier. We should initialize the hardware only when it actually gets "acively used" some way by user space. Linus - 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/