-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Jones wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:38 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > >># cd /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0 >># echo 1 >rom >># hexdump -C rom >> >>As far as I know this works on every platform, not just the PC one. > > Yep, you're right, this works. So we don't necessarily need it for the > vbetool case. X still could use it though, instead of their scary > poke-at-memory way. Dave Airlie recently changed X to use sysfs for reading ROMs. I'm also working on some changes to eliminate nearly all of the PCI bus poking that X does. Search for "PCI rework" or "libpciaccess" in the xorg list archives. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEW6WDX1gOwKyEAw8RAt/aAJ0VDgqBNLbvyKExD0oS3nM5UsAFugCfaJpf MLSBYFA6e96gyiAr4/j4T14= =pJQD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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