Re: Video RAM marked busy?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:55:51 +0100 (BST)

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> Why is the video RAM area marked busy in the following code from
> arch/i386/kernel/setup.c? (from 2.3.18) IMHO video driver really
> needs to make this decision. For now I am gonna have to hack around
> this in vga16fb. vgacon probably needs resource code too.

I would agree that is a bug. It for example means mdacon can't spot combo
vga/mda resource pairs.

> For that matter, should video ROM be marked busy too? Some video cards
> move that space to allow for accels where the video ROM usually lives.

Probably yes then

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