> >> The PCI spec said that you were not allowed to hotplug VGA drivers. > >> The big issue is that POST usually needs to run on those things, and > >> there is no way to POST a PCI hotplugged device. > > I don't think this is a problem any more, is it? I think X can > execute option ROMs, and if we assign the guest to a VM, the guest > BIOS can also do it. Providing the legacy I/O is routed to that device, it doesn't use DMA and a few other things. X has been able to POST cards with vm86 or the 8086 emulator stuff for a long time (it had to in order to use most PC cards on non x86 boxes). Your bigger problem is the marvellous reliable way that X handles a GPU simply vanishing, especially a legacy one. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
