RE: FYI: Merge in progress...

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:24, YhLu wrote:
> Why just set subsystem id, in amd_8111.c enable_dev function?
>
> That would more easy.
>
> Need one switch case to figure out different reg position.

??? I am talking about the K8 MTRR stuff I need to support VGA BIOS
in LinuxBIOS. It has to be done based on what CPU we are running and
if there is any VGA device in the system.

Ollie
> Regards
>
> YH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:18 AM
> To: Eric W. Biederman
> Cc: YhLu; 'Ronald G. Minnich'; 'LinuxBIOS'
> Subject: Re: FYI: Merge in progress...
>
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 12:00, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > At this point we should be able to look at the device tree and
> > see if we need to use and io range register or the RdRam WrDram bits.
>
> Are you talking somthing in my mind ? I hope in the mtrr.c for K8
> instead of hack with the mem_map we have:
>
> setup_mtrr()
> {
>    if (search_for_vga_device_on_the_tree() == FOUND) {
>    	enable_rd_wr_mem_in_fixed_mtrr();
>    	clear_rd_wr_mem_for_legacy_vga_buffer();
>    	set_IORR_to_AGP_aperture();
>    } else {
>    	disable_rd_wr_mem();
>    }
>
> do_some_other_thigs();
> }
>
> And the code is executed on each processors.
>
> Ollie