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

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at freedesktop.org
Tue Apr 28 22:01:52 PDT 2009


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.

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


                     Tiago


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