ati: shrink wrapper & pci-probe

[Martin G. Diehl]

George - wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I put two patches in http://people.freedesktop.org/~gsap7/ .
> 
> The first patch gets the ati wrapper to replace Driver lines 
> from Device sections with the appropriate subdriver name, 
> rather than register a DriverRec itself.
> 
> The above may sound ugly, but the resulting solution is 
> indeed pretty clean.  It also kills the ATI driver, turns 
> the subdrivers into proper standalone drivers and allows 
> pci-probing for the triad.
> 
> - it has been marginally tested with a single device and 
>   xserver 1.5, so please test esp. with older xserver's and 
>   multiple device sections with same and different driver lines
> - in the absence of BusID, i use the primary device, is this ok ?
> - is domain handled ok esp. with pciaccess ?
> 
> The second patch ports the subdrivers to pci-probing. It 
> basically adds pciids for each subdriver, it does not use 
> the match_data functionality. This is compile-tested only, 
> so please test.

I have a PC with the ATI mach64 chip set.

I would be happy to help you with the testing.

Since I am not expert in linus developer procedures,
pleae spell out the exact steps for me to follow.

> Please review.
> 
> regards,
> George.

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