legacy vga ... what do you think?

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Thu Jan 15 10:41:00 CET 2004


ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On 14 Jan 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > Yes but you should not need to know which device it is.
> 
> > Looking at the code though there is a bug.  When it finds a device
> > to give the legacy vga resources to it does not allocate any MMIO
> > resources.  For bridges this is a normal resource so this looks
> > a real bug in the generic code.  If that is why you need
> > the vgadev,  let's fix the generic code to handle that part properly. 
> 
> yes, that's the bug. I waffled between a generic fix and the simple fix I 
> outlined, but if you want the generic fix we can look at that too.

Please.  Mostly it requires finding the vga card first and giving it
the appropriate resource, in a format the resource allocator can
understand.

This is a subset of a more general case that working on the superio code
made me realize needs to be done.  Ultimately we need to make a scan
of devices with known programming interfaces and to assign them legacy
resources.  serial ports, parallel ports, ide, etc.  But vga is a
good first small step.

Eric



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