Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:08:38 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [BK updates] fbdev changes updates. |
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:45:10PM -0800, James Simmons wrote: > The reason for this is we will see in the future embedded ix86 > boards with things like i810 framebuffers with NO vga core. In this case > we will need a fbdev driver for a graphical console. Thus the agp code > must be started before the fbdev layer.
Can you explain exactly what the agpgart code is doing that needs to be done earlier than framebuffer ? I don't see any reason for this change. There should be no GART mappings until we've booted userspace (except for the case of IOMMU)
Dave
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