Re: legacy VGA device requirements (was: Exposing ROM's thoughsysfs)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 17:49:50 EST


On Gwe, 2004-08-13 at 17:11, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Maybe we need a display driver class? Could we reuse the dri drivers for that
> purpose?

Display and VGA devices do not correlate neatly. There are non VGA
devices we treat as video, and VGA devices we don't use when using the
hardware ourselves because its switched out of the video side (eg
on the Oxygen GMX)

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