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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Teunis Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Stephen Williams wrote:
>
> >
> > Philip.Blundell@pobox.com said:
> > > and the format of the `memory at...' lines has been changed
> > > slightly, which breaks some applications (notably XF86_TGA).
> >
> > Oh... is *that* how the X servers find PCI video cards? Golly, that is
> > pretty fragile. I think that my /proc/pcibus patches are an improvement
> > over that, and David Howells Configuration Management patches may improve
> > it even further.
> >
> > I think that programs parsing /proc/pci is a very bad idea. I think it
> > should be removed altogether.
>
> Okay fine. How _SHOULD_ a userspace program find a PCI card?
> (I'm probably missing something here - I haven't really paid all that much
> attention to this thread 'till now)
>
> Incidentally - Until Linus allows graphics support into the kernel, the
> search has to be done in userspace (with all the races, instability, and
> all that go with it.. but considering most videocards aren't all that
> stable to begin with this shouldn't really be a problem).
>
> G'day, eh?
> - Teunis
> [not that it affects me - am working on GGI now <g>]
>
>