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SubjectRe: Updates to matroxfb: do you want DFP or TVOut on G450/G
On  8 Jun 02 at 2:57, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 02:45:39AM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > (4) You can read PINS through /proc.
> > (H) Change /proc code to use driverfs instead. Linus refused
> > /proc based code already.
>
> One of the first things I ever wrote for Linux was a PINS decoder.
> It read from /dev/mem to get the PINS structure. Any reason
> why this isn't good enough, and we need the kernel exporting PINS ?

It does not print decoded structure, it shows it in raw format, 64-128
bytes, just to avoid userspace parsing /dev/mem because of matroxfb
did it already (and matroxfb needs PINS to properly initialize Gx50
cards in non-PC hardware). And it may be non-trivial to get PINS from
userspace at all because of BIOSes may be disabled by firmware
(and f.e. on my PC they are disabled for secondary adapters, so
simple parsing /dev/mem leads to nowhere because of BIOS is hidden).

Besides that, it lives in complete separate file, so it is easy
to add/remove it.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz

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