On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:01, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > This new scheme allows the entire PCI probing stage of xfree to be eliminated.
>
> I'll believe it when the relevant XFree86 developers agree with you. :)
If they don't, they are clueless.
There's no way in _hell_ that XFree86 can do as good a job as the kernel,
on as wide a variety of hardware. Basically, if the kernel booted far
enough that XFree86 is an issue, then the kernel will know how to probe
PCI devices. The same is _not_ true of XFree86.
Yes, XF86 may need to have some legacy module for backwards compatibility.
But thinking that X should try to probe on its own is just silly.
There are things like cardbus or compact flash video cards - you need them
for external video on things like an iPAQ. I don't think you _really_ want
X to know about every single PCI bridge type out there, present and
future, and for every architecture out there.
Linus
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