Russell King wrote:
> Jeff Garzik writes:
> > > For example, S3 cards typically use:
> > >
> > > 0x0102, 0x42e8, 0x46e8, 0x4ae8, 0x8180 - 0x8200, 0x82e8, 0x86e8,
> > > 0x8ae8, 0x8ee8, 0x92e8, 0x96e8, 0x9ae8, 0x9ee8, 0xa2e8, 0xa6e8,
> > > 0xaae8, 0xaee8, 0xb2e8, 0xb6e8, 0xbae8, 0xbee8, 0xe2e8,
> > > 0xff00 - 0xff44
> ^^^^ PCI IO addresses
Oops, you're right :)
> If the driver isn't loaded, the port is still used by the hardware. Therefore,
> it should be reserved independent of whether we have the driver loaded/in kernel
> or not.
That logic doesn't work. If you believe that, then the core kernel
needs to be doing 100% of the request_region calls, right at bootup...
If XFree86 not fbdev is using the hardware, you can always have a stub
driver that does nothing but reserve the ports. Remember, too, that the
ports claimed depend on register settings in the video card and PCI
config space..
Jeff
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