Re: [patch 2.6] remove PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA handling from setup-bus.c

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 08:30:05 EST


On 7/14/05, Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The setup-bus code doesn't work correctly for configurations
> with more than one display adapter in the same PCI domain.
> This stuff actually is a leftover of an early 2.4 PCI setup code
> and apparently it stopped working after some "bridge_ctl" changes.
> So the best thing we can do is just to remove it and rely on the fact
> that any firmware *has* to configure VGA port forwarding for the boot
> display device properly.

This fixes my system where the VGA display device is on the second bus.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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