Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 30 2005 - 09:11:53 EST


On Llu, 2005-08-29 at 22:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm sure X plays games with this register (I suspect that's why the Matrox
> thing broke in the first place), but I don't think it should do so while
> the kernel uses it.

X maps it over ram during matrox set up but that is all it uses it for.
X can also be persuaded to do it differently given a suitable kernel
API.
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