[linux-fbdev] [PATCH 2.3.x] fbdev reversion

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com
Tue Mar 14 21:05:52 EST 2000


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com>
> wrote:
> Well, while we are at it, we could also work on fixing the PCI problems:
> Instead of relying on XFree knowing the host bridge and deducing the
> iobase, I beleive we should export from the kernel either one iobase per
> PCI device (there can be different busses with different iobases, that's
> the case on the new macs and they have the same bus number), or we can
> have /proc/bus/pci export "fixed'up" IO addresses (already including the
> iobase).
>
> I can code those fixes, but I'm not sure what solution has most chances
> of beeing accepted (especially changing /poc/bus/pci semantics). The
> problem is that exporting an IO address alone (without the iobase) has
> really no meaning on arch that don't have a x86-like separate IO space at
> the CPU level.

Have you talked to Martin Mares about this?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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