RE: Running with VGA

[YhLu]

No, Top to down will more worse.

1. I thank Northbridge PCI_DEV(0, 0x18, 0)... should be initial before
CPU....
2. In tree apic cluster is after pci_domain.....

YH

-----Original Message-----
From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:11 PM
To: YhLu
Cc: Sagiv Yefet; LinuxBIOS
Subject: RE: Running with VGA

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 20:00, YhLu wrote:
> I would change dev_initalize to following
> void dev_initialize(void)
> {
>         struct device *dev;
>     printk_info("Initializing devices...\n");
>
> #if CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA == 1
>         for (dev = all_devices; dev; dev = dev->next) {
>                 if (dev->enabled && !dev->initialized &&
>                         dev->ops && dev->ops->init)
>                 {
>                         if( dev->on_mainboard && (dev->rom_address!=0))
> continue;
>                         printk_debug("%s init\n", dev_path(dev));
>                         dev->initialized = 1;
>                         dev->ops->init(dev);
>                 }
>         }
> #endif
>         for (dev = all_devices; dev; dev = dev->next) {
>                 if (dev->enabled && !dev->initialized &&
>                         dev->ops && dev->ops->init)
>                 {
>                         printk_debug("%s init\n", dev_path(dev));
>                         dev->initialized = 1;
>                         dev->ops->init(dev);
>                 }
>         }
>         printk_info("Devices initialized\n");
> }

If we really have to do that, I think we should change the init order
to "top to down" instead of "first to last" in the device tree.

Ollie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: YhLu 
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:51 PM
> To: Li-Ta Lo
> Cc: Sagiv Yefet; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: Running with VGA
>
> It seems after if after cpu init do the onboard vga init, it will work.
>
> The CPU init only do the init ECC and clear that after 1M. ... Werid! And

it
> is not wiped out after power off.
>
> YH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:15 PM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: Sagiv Yefet; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: Running with VGA
>
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:23, YhLu wrote:
> > S2892 has onboard atirage xl
> > S2895 has no onboard.
>
> With exactly the same chip and BIOS? Then probably the order
> of calling device::init() does matter.
>
> Ollie
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:10 PM
> > To: YhLu
> > Cc: Sagiv Yefet; LinuxBIOS
> > Subject: RE: Running with VGA
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:45, YhLu wrote:
> > > No, no problem.
> > >
> > > Same addon card (ati rage xl) (pci) on S2895 works well.
> >
> > I am confused. Are you using S2895 or S2892? And is the rage xl
> > on board or as an addon card?
> >
> > Ollie
>
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