Re: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 16:07:30 EST


On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:38 am, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On Monday, January 17, 2005 7:43 pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > Attached is a patch to control VGA bus routing and the active VGA
> > > device. It works by adding sysfs attributes to bridge and VGA devices.
> > > The bridge attribute is read only and indicates if the bridge is
> > > routing VGA. The attribute on the device has four values:
> >
> > How is it supposed to work? Is VGA routing determined by the chipset?
> > Is it separate from other legacy I/O and memory addresses?
>
> Yes, there are special control bits in any PCI bridge header for the
> VGA ports.

Well, not all of them, which is why I asked. Though obviously this patch will
need some very platform specific bits at any rate.

Jesse
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