Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 11:54:17 EST


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:37:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You either need to execute the video BIOS to initialize the hardware
> registers, or initialize the hardware registers themselves.

That is what the user mode reset program does.

The problem is, how do I get it to run before calling the device's
probe function? Most of the framebuffer drivers assume that the
hardware has already been reset in their probe code.


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> Jeff
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