Re: Next round of console patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 13:23:22 +0100 (BST)


> Yes, __init is great. The main problem is finding a bunny to do the
> work ;-) Any volunteers out there?

Start with the bttv table for the base addresses and get folks to test
the cards. That covers most cards already.

> Aside: wouldn't the list have to have a very large number of entries,
> though? There must be hundreds (thousands) of different cards out
> there. Seems a bit tedious.

Cards maybe, chips no. For example all Cirrus cards have the frame buffer
in the same PCI config register...

Alan

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