pci-rework merge tomorrow

David Nusinow dnusinow at speakeasy.net
Sat Aug 25 10:27:08 PDT 2007


On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:27:52PM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
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> David Nusinow wrote:
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> > It raises another issue that also came up in #xorg-devel recently related
> > to the work I've been doing to have the server automatically load the right
> > driver when none is specified. Currently, this doesn't work at all when you
> > have a xorg.conf that's missing a device section, and makes a good guess
> > when you don't have a xorg.conf present.
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> In pci-rework, the driver has a table of PCI IDs that it supports.  This
> table is virtually identical to the one used by kernel drivers.  It
> should be trivial to use that.

Ok, that is potentially a lot easier. I'll look at adapting my patch to
just search those symbols instead of the text files.

 - David Nusinow



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