On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 04:37:16PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > BTW can we teach virtio-gpu to look for framebuffer using > > virtio pci caps? > > The virtio-gpu driver doesn't matter much here, it doesn't use it > anyway. > > > Or are there limitations such as only > > using IO port BARs, or compatibility with > > BIOS code etc that limit us to specific BARs anyway? > > Yes, vgabios code needs to know. Currently it has bar #2 for the vga > framebuffer bar hardcoded. It's 16bit code. I don't feel like making > the probing more complicated ... > > cheers, > Gerd OK - you are saying all VGA cards use bar #2 for this functionality, so we are just following established practice here? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
