vga arbiter (news)

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Nov 22 17:37:26 PST 2007


> [4] http://people.freedesktop.org/~vignatti/VGA.Notes


This seems to imply that there is a single locked instance of the VGA
legacy addressing. That isn't neccessarily the case. On some PA-RISC for
example you have multiple PCI busses hanging off the system busses.

So the arbiter needs to know about PCI. Your kernel interface seems to
but not your X one ?

A second question this leads onto is basically about the interface. I
would expect a sysfs interface to have made more sense with one node per
candidate vga device.

Alan



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