[PATCH 1/1] Uncomment PCI access functions inside server

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 22:38:52 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Tiago Vignatti
<vignatti at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson escreveu:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Tiago Vignatti
>> <vignatti at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> This reintroduces secondary cards initialization.
>>>
>>> We're currently living in a completely mess regarding the resources
>>> access control. Some accesses are done by libpciaccess, other by Xorg
>>> and other simply don't exist yet (e.g. arbitration of legacy VGA). We
>>> can discuss about a beautiful redesign later. In this moment I just want
>>> to put back the multiple card, multiple head functionality. The first
>>> step is to reintroduce secondary cards initialization. I'll keep the
>>> work.
>>
>> This issue doesn't affect me, but what's the status of the vga
>> arbiter? It seemed that you had working code a while back.
>
> That code worked-ish in pre-pcirework Xorg. We have a new problem now which
> is to solve this issue above.

Ah, I didn't realize it was pre-libpciaccess.

> BTW, it doesn't affect you in what meaning?

All my systems have 1 graphics card. :) I was just curious whatever
happened with the VGA arbiter you were working on.

--
Dan


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