Hello, Patrick > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Patrick Georgi > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [coreboot] Patch set updated for coreboot: 6709bdd Fix > multipleVGA cards resource conflict on Windows > > Am 19.12.2011 18:02, schrieb ron minnich: > > I wonder if a better way to manage this is via a CMOS (aka NVRAM) > > setting. > No user visible configuration if it can be avoided, please. > > > I kind of hate to limit coreboot because Windows is limited. > > But I'm a n00b in a sense, having just come back onto this project, so > > I'm happy to be told I'm wrong :-) > It sounds just wrong to have IO/MEM decoding on the _same_ areas > activated for two devices. Yes, exactly. > vgaarb should still work with one of them having resources disabled by > default, I think. I have tested Linux vgaarb still works. We just do a part of the vgaarb job in coreboot.
> Otherwise coreboot would be the _only_ chance for vgaarb to work, as all > other boot systems will support Windows even to the detriment of Linux > support. > Which means that vgaarb wouldn't exist, given their position towards > coreboot. It make sense on the OS lacking a mechanism like vgaarb. Anyway, more test on different OS is needed. Thanks > > > Changing circumstances mean I get to work on it > > again, which is nice. > Yay! > > > Patrick > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
