From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>, Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@fluido.as>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FBDEV 2.6.0-test7 updates.
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:34:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031017193447.41865.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310171751200.966-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
The people writing the AGP driver have added their ID's in the wrong format.
ATI wants the IDs in the two letter form, not family/chip. The fbdev patch has
the ID's in correct form. The AGP driver should be the one that gets changed.
--- James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > - Could I2C be ported to kernel I2C api and separated?, so it use would not
> > require the fbdev module loaded.
>
> I don't think that can be done. At least not easily.
>
> > - PCI IDs list should be in pci_ids.h as every other drivers, reality is
> > that adding new IDs to pci_ids.h is not hard so your driver will not be the
> > exception to the rule.
>
> I agree here. We do need to watch out for the AGP drivers. Changing PCI
> Id's can break them. I dicovered that recently.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-15 22:59 James Simmons
2003-10-15 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15 23:22 ` James Simmons
2003-10-15 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15 23:27 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 9:19 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Carlo E. Prelz
2003-10-16 9:29 ` Sven Luther
2003-10-17 16:48 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 10:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-16 10:19 ` Carlo E. Prelz
2003-10-16 10:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-16 10:48 ` Carlo E. Prelz
2003-10-16 10:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 10:04 ` Carlo E. Prelz
2003-10-17 10:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 11:10 ` Carlo E. Prelz
2003-10-17 11:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 14:44 ` Kronos
2003-10-17 17:29 ` James Simmons
2003-10-18 21:28 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-17 17:40 ` James Simmons
2003-10-17 14:26 ` Kronos
2003-10-16 21:06 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-17 10:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 16:52 ` James Simmons
2003-10-17 19:34 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2003-10-17 19:50 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-16 0:24 ` Michel Dänzer
2003-10-16 8:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 16:45 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 5:08 ` Jan De Luyck
2003-10-17 16:44 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 10:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-10-16 17:48 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 19:58 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-16 20:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-10-17 11:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 17:25 ` James Simmons
2003-10-17 17:45 ` Torrey Hoffman
2003-10-17 17:23 ` James Simmons
2003-10-17 13:23 ` Alex Goddard
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