legacy vga ... what do you think?

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Jan 15 10:12:00 CET 2004


On 14 Jan 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Yes but you should not need to know which device it is.

> Looking at the code though there is a bug.  When it finds a device
> to give the legacy vga resources to it does not allocate any MMIO
> resources.  For bridges this is a normal resource so this looks
> a real bug in the generic code.  If that is why you need
> the vgadev,  let's fix the generic code to handle that part properly. 

yes, that's the bug. I waffled between a generic fix and the simple fix I 
outlined, but if you want the generic fix we can look at that too.

ron




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