Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 17 Apr 2003 17:24:41 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2003-04-17 at 16:56, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 04:47:45PM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > > Hmm, well what about with a PCI hotswap capable board - presumably > > then we could have the situation where a new VGA card appears that we > > _have_ to POST? > > Then XFree86 will POST it. > > The kernel really only cares about POST'ing the primary display, too. > Firmware typically completely disables, and does not POST, secondary > displays. XFree86 is charged with the responsibility of POST'ing > secondary displays.
XFree86 currently has to do some pray and hope stuff here. We cannot have X and the kernel both controlling PCI allocations and config space at once. X needs kernel interfaces to do the job right some day.
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