[PATCH RFC]: Generic Linux multi-domain PCI handling

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Tue Jan 3 13:34:48 PST 2006


On Tuesday, January 3, 2006 12:39 pm, David S. Miller wrote:
> No particular reason.  To be truthful the right thing to do, which I
> just mentioned in another reply in this thread, is to have X link in
> libpci.a from pciutils as it knows how to deal with all of the
> backward-compat issue and we're reimplementing a lot of functionality
> already present in that code base.

That would be ideal; it would also imply that the current PCI support 
code in the X server tree be refactored into a semi-arch independent PCI 
layer (as it is now) which either implements PCI support for platforms 
that don't do it, or wraps platform libraries as in the case of 
libpci.a.  Unfortunately, that's a good sized chunk of work given the 
current state of the X server PCI code...

Jesse



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