Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:48:07 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing generic AGP options Message-ID: <200410041348.07691.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1096849178.859.45.camel@leguin> References: <1096849178.859.45.camel@leguin>
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On Sunday 03 October 2004 08:19 pm, Eric Anholt wrote: > I would like to remove the generic support from the various AGP > drivers. These are the cases of matching the vendor and PCIC_BRIDGE || > PCIS_BRIDGE_HOST with AGP capabilities. My reasoning is that, while we > sometimes get lucky, most of the times it seems like the wrong type of > AGP driver attaches, and people get unexplained hangs when doing > "startx." One example would be myself with a new AMD64 system, where > agp_via attached when agp_amd64 looks like what was necessary. I know > we've had examples of this before with agp_amd, agp_via, and agp_intel > in the past. Any opposition? > > I think most of our drivers have the PCI IDs they currently support > anyway (I might check linux before making the change), so I don't think > this would have much impact on current users. Please. This has been a low priority item on my todo list for a while. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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