Re: Re: [PATCH 4/5][RFC] fbdev: Clean up framebuffer initialization
From: Otto Wyss <hidden>
Date: 2004-09-04 07:46:37
"Antonino A. Daplas" wrote:
Mainly cleanup, but also point #5. The i810fb, for instance, depends on agpgart, but agpgart gets initialized way after fbdev. The workaround is for i810fb to explicitly call intel_agp_init(). Besides the ugliness, forcibly initializing the agpgart subsystem out of sequence may cause problems.
Sorry if I interrupt without deeper knowledge but doesn't this sound very strange? Why is a subsystem initialized much later than the one which depends on it? Doesn't this look like a design error? O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click