Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:02:34 -0500 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware |
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Jon Smirl wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:37:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote: > >>You either need to execute the video BIOS to initialize the hardware >>registers, or initialize the hardware registers themselves. > > > That is what the user mode reset program does. > > The problem is, how do I get it to run before calling the device's > probe function? Most of the framebuffer drivers assume that the > hardware has already been reset in their probe code.
<shrug> You do precisely what you just said: run it before the device's probe function.
That typically means either initramfs addition or using 'install <module> command...' in /etc/modprobe.conf.
Jeff
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