Yes, __init is great. The main problem is finding a bunny to do the
work ;-) Any volunteers out there?
Aside: wouldn't the list have to have a very large number of entries,
though? There must be hundreds (thousands) of different cards out
there. Seems a bit tedious.
> vesafb is a console, so it "has to work".
Agreed. I hope we can get a whitelist in there, though, as it seems to
speed up the console (around 2x according to Tom Eastep).
> > What's the story with cards that would be safe to make the FB
> > write-combining? Do they only have their registers in a separate
> > region? I would have thought that this is generally how it's done with
> > PCI cards?
>
> Normally yes.
Groan. I guess this is thanks to shitty PC card vendors.
Regards,
Richard....
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