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Subject: Re[2]: [PATCH 2.6.18] IA64: Add pci_fixup_video into IA64 kernel
    forembedded VGA
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>Ar Mer, 2006-09-27 am 20:23 +0900, ysgrifennodd
>eiichiro.oiwa.nm@hitachi.com:
>> I moved pci_fixup_video to generic location (driver/pci/quirks.c).
>> I tested generic fixup_video on x86, x86_64 and IA64, and confirmed
>> we can read Video BIOS from the sysfs rom with embedded VGA.
>
>Lots of embedded systems don't have a PCI bios in the usual sense, and
>cannot run the x86 code in the ROM firmware either. That doesn't appear
>to be a big problem when setting PCI_ROM_SHADOW but those platforms may
>not all be able to access the shadow rom if one exists.
>
>Can you fix the comment in drivers/pci/rom.c to reflect the changes.
>
>Otherwise looks good.
>
>Alan
>

Thank you for some good advise.
I changed this subject to appropriate one:
[PATCH 2.6.18] PCI: Turn pci_fixup_video into generic for embedded VGA

Thanks,
Eiichiro
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