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Benjamin Herrenschmidt deb2d2ecd4 PCI/GPU: implement VGA arbitration on Linux 
Background:
Graphic devices are accessed through ranges in I/O or memory space. While most
modern devices allow relocation of such ranges, some "Legacy" VGA devices
implemented on PCI will typically have the same "hard-decoded" addresses as
they did on ISA. For more details see "PCI Bus Binding to IEEE Std 1275-1994
Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware Revision 2.1"
Section 7, Legacy Devices.

The Resource Access Control (RAC) module inside the X server currently does
the task of arbitration when more than one legacy device co-exists on the same
machine. But the problem happens when these devices are trying to be accessed
by different userspace clients (e.g. two server in parallel). Their address
assignments conflict. Therefore an arbitration scheme _outside_ of the X
server is needed to control the sharing of these resources. This document
introduces the operation of the VGA arbiter implemented for Linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
 		2009-09-09 13:29:36 -07:00
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accessibility
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acpi ACPI: export acpi_pci_root and friends 2009-09-09 13:29:22 -07:00
amba [ARM] amba: fix amba device resources 2009-07-05 22:39:08 +01:00
ata ata_piix: parallel scanning on PATA needs an extra locking 2009-08-31 17:25:00 -10:00
atm
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auxdisplay
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base PM / Driver Core: Kill dev_pm_ops platform warning for now 2009-08-10 23:41:18 +02:00
block aoe: allocate unused request_queue for sysfs 2009-09-09 14:10:18 +02:00
bluetooth headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
cdrom
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char Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel 2009-09-07 11:38:30 -07:00
clocksource sh: CMT suspend/resume 2009-08-15 12:58:45 +09:00
connector connector: maintainer/mail update. 2009-07-21 12:43:51 -07:00
cpufreq [CPUFREQ] Re-enable cpufreq suspend and resume code 2009-09-01 12:45:08 -04:00
cpuidle
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crypto crypto: padlock-aes - work around Nano CPU errata in CBC mode 2009-06-18 19:31:09 +08:00
dca
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dio
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dma Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx 2009-07-30 16:46:31 -07:00
edac amd64_edac: print debug statements only on error 2009-08-04 12:10:06 +02:00
eisa Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
firewire Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2009-09-05 14:59:00 -07:00
firmware Pull for-2.6.31 into release 2009-06-17 09:35:24 -07:00
gpio headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
gpu PCI/GPU: implement VGA arbitration on Linux 2009-09-09 13:29:36 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2009-07-22 09:30:07 -07:00
hwmon hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Fix upper limit readings 2009-07-28 16:31:39 +02:00
i2c i2c-stu300: I2C STU300 stability updates 2009-08-20 22:27:58 +01:00
ide pcmcia: add CNF-CDROM-ID for ide 2009-08-14 13:09:32 -07:00
idle
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ieee1394 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2009-07-06 14:03:44 -07:00
ieee802154
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infiniband Merge branches 'ehca', 'misc', 'mlx4', 'mthca' and 'nes' into for-linus 2009-06-23 10:38:47 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2009-09-05 13:41:29 -07:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-08-04 15:38:34 -07:00
leds leds: after setting inverted attribute, we must update the LED 2009-08-26 20:06:53 -07:00
lguest lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style. 2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
macintosh m68k: count can reach 51, not 50 2009-08-26 23:14:49 +02:00
mca
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md dm snapshot: fix on disk chunk size validation 2009-09-04 20:40:43 +01:00
media V4L/DVB (12502): gspca - sn9c20x: Fix gscpa sn9c20x build errors. 2009-08-31 02:24:54 -03:00
memstick
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message fusion: mptsas, fix lock imbalance 2009-06-22 08:54:14 -05:00
mfd mfd: twl4030 irq fixes 2009-08-04 20:31:32 +02:00
misc cb710: use SG_MITER_TO_SG/SG_MITER_FROM_SG 2009-07-31 12:28:46 +02:00
mmc drivers/mmc: correct error-handling code 2009-08-07 10:39:56 -07:00
mtd mtd: nftl: fix offset alignments 2009-09-03 14:59:16 +01:00
net gianfar: Fix build. 2009-09-06 01:41:24 -07:00
nubus
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of of/mdio: Add support function for Ethernet fixed-link property 2009-07-22 09:27:18 -07:00
oprofile oprofile: reset bt_lost_no_mapping with other stats 2009-07-10 12:35:36 +02:00
parisc parisc: hppb.c - fix printk format strings 2009-08-02 15:42:39 +02:00
parport parport/serial: add support for NetMos 9901 Multi-IO card 2009-06-30 18:55:59 -07:00
pci PCI/GPU: implement VGA arbitration on Linux 2009-09-09 13:29:36 -07:00
pcmcia yenta: Use pci_claim_resource 2009-09-09 13:29:19 -07:00
platform toshiba_acpi: return on a fail path 2009-08-28 15:17:07 -04:00
pnp Merge branches 'acerhdf', 'acpi-pci-bind', 'bjorn-pci-root', 'bugzilla-12904', 'bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13396', 'bugzilla-13533', 'bugzilla-13612', 'c3_lock', 'hid-cleanups', 'misc-2.6.31', 'pdc-leak-fix', 'pnpacpi', 'power_nocheck', 'thinkpad_acpi', 'video' and 'wmi' into release 2009-06-24 01:19:50 -04:00
power Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/battery-2.6.31 2009-07-30 16:45:53 -07:00
pps pps: fix incorrect verdict check 2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
ps3
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rapidio
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regulator
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rtc rtc: mark if rtc-cmos drivers were successfully registered 2009-07-29 19:10:35 -07:00
s390 [S390] drivers/s390: put NULL test before dereference 2009-08-23 18:10:00 +02:00
sbus sparc: Fix cleanup crash in bbc_envctrl_cleanup() 2009-07-17 10:28:19 -07:00
scsi [SCSI] mpt2sas: fix config request and diag reset deadlock 2009-08-14 09:16:05 -05:00
serial ARM: S3C64XX: serial: Fix a typo in Kconfig 2009-08-14 00:43:46 +01:00
sh
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sn
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spi spi_s3c24xx: fix transfer setup code 2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
ssb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-07-09 20:33:18 -07:00
staging Staging: rspiusb: Fix buffer overflow 2009-08-07 16:12:03 -07:00
tc
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telephony headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
thermal thermal_sys: check get_temp return value 2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
uio
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usb USB: fix oops on disconnect in cdc-acm 2009-08-07 16:05:14 -07:00
uwb
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video PCI/GPU: implement VGA arbitration on Linux 2009-09-09 13:29:36 -07:00
virtio virtio: refactor find_vqs 2009-07-30 16:03:45 +09:30
vlynq vlynq: fix typo in Kconfig to enable debugging 2009-07-06 13:57:03 -07:00
w1 drivers/w1/masters/omap_hdq.c: fix missing mutex unlock 2009-08-07 10:39:55 -07:00
watchdog [WATCHDOG] ar7_wdt: fix path to ar7-specific headers 2009-08-15 13:05:01 +00:00
xen xen: Use kcalloc() in xen_init_IRQ() 2009-07-01 11:19:47 +02:00
zorro
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Kconfig LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
Makefile LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00