Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:58:20 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side |
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:37:13 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:35 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > This is from /linux-2.5/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt. It > > describes how ia64 is achieving legacy IO. The VGA control code > > probably needs to be coordinated with this. > > This is a different thing, and I will implement it on ppc one of these > days. This is for issuing the IO cycles on the bus. It has nothing > to do with the actual arbitration work.
Each one of these legacy spaces corresponds to an allowable simultaneous VGA use. There should be one arbiter per legacy space.
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