Re: [PATCH 44/47] PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 19:32:42 EST


On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:51:24PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Use at your own risk!!!
>
> I havent debugged it, but it seems to reorder the driver probing, offb
> vs. nvidiafb (-bad, +good):
>
> -Using unsupported 1024x768 NVDA,Display-A at 90020000, depth=8, pitch=1024
> -PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #2:10000000@90000000 for device 0000:0a:00.0
> -nvidiafb: cannot request PCI regions
> +nvidiafb: Device ID: 10de0141
> +nvidiafb: CRTC0 analog found
> +nvidiafb: CRTC1 analog found
> +nvidiafb: Found OF EDID for head 1
> +nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS1
> +nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS2
> +nvidiafb: CRTC 0 appears to have a CRT attached
> +nvidiafb: Using CRT on CRTC 0
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> -fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@0,f0000000/NVDA,Parent@0/NVDA,Display-A@0
> +nvidiafb: PCI nVidia NV14 framebuffer (64MB @ 0x90000000)

Hm, is things just getting registered out of order, so the wrong video
device is used by the kernel? Or by userspace?

thanks,

greg k-h
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