On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 18:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We already do. The current i810 driver tree does it all (in the > "modesetting" branch). > > So on the Mac Mini, I can have full X with all the bells and whistles, and > no BIOS calls used anywhere. Ah good. Does the driver actuall re-POST the chip completely or is it not necessary ? I suppose the fact that it's an integrated chipset makes things easier... With ATI radeons, one of the major pains is to re-initialize the memory controller and internal clock net. I've reverse enineered it from the MacOS driver for some chips used on apple laptops but it's still far from a generic solution. Ben.
