Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the feedback. I'll incorporate your comments and Ivan's into an
updated patch and re-test. What's the procedure afterwards -- should I
re-submit as a follow-up to this thread or start a new thread?
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:14:43PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > From: Jay Estabrook <[email protected]>
> > Add working support for VGA hoses on Alpha, which is required in order to
> > use a VGA console on TITAN- and TSUNAMI-class Alpha systems. This also
> > generalizes support for non-standard VGA offsets on Alpha to cover the
> > Marvel class of alphas without special-casing. Includes recognizing an
> > additional model of TITAN-class Alpha.
> > Tested successfully on an ES45 and a DS25 with a vanilla 2.6.18 kernel,
> > also tested on an LX164 with the Debian 2.6.18 kernel with no regressions.
> > Included in Alpha Core distribution for some time.
> It would be appropriate for both yourself and Jay to provide signoffs for
> this work, as per section 11 of Documentation/SubmittingPatches, please.
Ok, will ask Jay for this.
> What is a "hose"?
Ivan's comment, that this is effectively a PCI domain, is consistent with my
(limited) understanding.
> > +/* wait until after includes to test for this, to allow arch-specific mod. */
> > +#ifndef vga_request_resource
> > +# define vga_request_resource request_resource
> > +#endif
> > +
> erk.
Yeah. :/ Suggestions welcome.
> So we actually need to include asm/pci.h in these files?
Uhm, appears not. Thanks for noticing.
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