On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:55 pm, eiichiro.oiwa.nm@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > pci_fixup_video turns into generic code because there are many platforms > need this fixup for embedded VGA as well as x86. The Video BIOS > integrates into System BIOS on a machine has embedded VGA although > embedded VGA generally don't have PCI ROM. As a result, embedded VGA > need the way that the sysfs rom points to the Video BIOS of System RAM > (0xC0000). PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture specification describes the > condition whether or not PCI ROM forwards VGA compatible memory address. > fixup_video suits this specification. Although the Video ROM generally > implements in x86 code regardless of platform, some application such as > X Window System can run this code by dosemu86. Therefore, > pci_fixup_video should turn into generic code. > > > Signed-off-by: Eiichiro Oiwa <eiichiro.oiwa.nm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks a lot, Eiichiro, this patch has been needed for awhile. Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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