POSTing of video cards (WAS: Solo Xgl..)

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 22:03:17 PST 2005


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:13:36 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:56 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> I think that the driver is the "chief" here and the one to know what to
> do with the cards it drives. It can detect a non-POSTed card and deal
> with it.

What about the x86 case of VGA devices that run without a driver being
loaded? Do we force people to load an fbdev driver to get the reset?
The BIOS deficiency strategy works for these devices.

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Jon Smirl
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