Re: Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware

[Jeff Garzik]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> I haven't been able to come up with a reliable way to call a user
> space reset program from a driver's probe function except with an
> in-kernel emu86. Is there another way? I'd also like to try an find a
> solution that doesn't need to modify the 73 existing framebuffer
> drivers.


You either need to execute the video BIOS to initialize the hardware 
registers, or initialize the hardware registers themselves.

	Jeff

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