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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 01:03 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 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.

Do we need to deal with those at all ? (I mean _really_: do we care ?)

And even if we did, then we could have the vga "legacy" driver use the
firmware loader to "boot" them. And again, you seem to dismiss all my
other arguments... 


Ben.