From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Message-Id: <200011171711.RAA01375@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:11:28 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mj@suse.cz
In-Reply-To: <3A1564D9.2AC70F6F@mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at Nov 17, 2000 12:03:21 PM
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Jeff Garzik writes:
> Dig through the video card docs, even older ISA video cards let you
> disable I/O decoding on all but a few ports, and/or relocate the ports
> it does use to other areas.  Different with every video card, of course,
> but most of them can do this to a greater or lesser extent.

Unfortunately, when you start thinking about x86 and running the BIOSes
to (re-)initialise VGA cards back to text mode, they don't take it well
if you do this sort of messing.

However, I believe that my problem is sorted by use of that function from
pci-i386.c.

Thanks to people who helped.
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