Re: legacy VGA device requirements (was: Exposing ROM's though sysfs)

[Jon Smirl]

I know internally how to find the VGA cards using the PCI class. I
meant this in the context of how do you enumerate all of the VGA
devices in a domain from a user space app. What is the API for this?
What is the user space API for turning off all of the VGA devices in a
domain?

--- Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Gwe, 2004-08-13 at 16:53, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > What should the API for this look like? We could add a VGA={0/1}
> > attribute to all the VGA devices in sysfs.
> > 
> > But then how do you:
> > 1) list all of the conflicting VGA devices in a domain?
> > 2) turn off all the VGA devices in a domain?
> 
> 1. Is part of the PCI specification since there is a PCI class for
> VGA video devices. 2 follows naturally from 1
> 
> 


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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx


		
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