On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:45:10PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
 > The reason for this is we will see in the future embedded ix86
 > boards with things like i810 framebuffers with NO vga core. In this case
 > we will need a fbdev driver for a graphical console. Thus the agp code
 > must be started before the fbdev layer.

Can you explain exactly what the agpgart code is doing that needs
to be done earlier than framebuffer ? I don't see any reason for this
change. There should be no GART mappings until we've booted userspace
(except for the case of IOMMU)

Best to ask the author of the i810 framebuffer driver. He can tell you his
need for AGP stuff. I CC.