[PATCH] xf86VGAarbiter,vgaHW: Only wrap co-operating VGA drivers
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Sep 16 00:59:27 PDT 2013
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:01:41AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > That would be equally true at the time the first arbiter support was
> > added. Yet the approach taken was the pessismitic one we have today.
>
> No it wasn't, arbiter support was written years ago, and I think I
> developed it on an i945 and SiS PCI card, which I most certainly
> didn't have kernel drivers for.
I stand corrected. The earlier references I could find in git were to
/dev/vga_arbiter, so I presume it began that way.
-Chris
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