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>On Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:42 am, eiichiro.oiwa.nm@hitachi.com >wrote: >> To be compatible with Xorg's handling of PCI, we need pci_fixup_video on >> IA64 platform like x86 platform. There are also machines, which have VGA >> embedded into main board, among IA64 platform. Embedded VGA generally >> don't have PCI ROM, and there are VGA ROM image in System BIOS. >> Therefore, these machines need pci_fixup_video for the sysfs rom. >> pci_fixup_video already exists in x86 Linux kernel. However since this >> function doesn't exist in IA64 kernel, we could not run X server on IA64 >> box has embedded-VGA. >> >> I tested pci_fixup_video on IA64 box has embedded-VGA. I confirmed we >> can read VGA BIOS from the sysfs rom regardless of embedded-VGA. > >Looks good, Eiichiro, thanks for posting this. > >> +#include <linux/delay.h> >> +#include <linux/dmi.h> >> +#include <linux/pci.h> >> +#include <linux/init.h> > >For this version, I don't think you need delay.h or dmi.h. And like Bjorn >mentioned, this could probably be turned into generic code in drivers/pci >so we don't have too much duplication with x86 (and like I mentioned, >x86_64 could probably use this too). > >Jesse > "PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture Specification" describes how to support VGA. And pci_fixup_video suits this specification because this function checks the Bridge Control register. I also think pci_fixup_video should be turned into generic quirks.c in drivers/pci. Ok, I will modify code and test. Thanks, Eiichiro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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