Re: kdrive porting question

Brent Cook <busterbcook-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Franco Catrin L. wrote:

> El lun, 29-03-2004 a las 02:15, Keith Packard escribió:
>
> > If it's new code, feel free to use fd.o CVS for revision control.  Just
> > don't build it by default and it won't bother anyone.
>
> Keith, how can we write to fd.o CVS (pserver/ssh, which accounts)?
>
> Buster, you can see my code at http://www.tuxpan.cl/fcatrin/fdo. It has
> all the basic functionality and a bit of accelerated stuff.

Thanks a lot. I'll see if I have anything extra to add from my code and
get a few diffs together for merging.

> BTW: I got MMIO working when preparing a test case for Buster! it seems
> that I just needed iopl(3)

It's weird that the behavior for performing an IO port request without
iopl(3) causes a segfault for what is really just a permissions issue. I
guess memory protection is just a special case.

I found this out earlier on because I was trying to detect the panel type
manually and needed to do reads from VGA registers.

  - Brent

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