Re: [utah-glx-dev] Solaris/x86 physmap module

[Andreas E. <eh...@ly...>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:43:41PM -0600, justin wrote:
> Anyway, I have a couple of suggestions:
> 
> 1.  The README should mention that the system needs to be reconfigured before 
> the new device will show up.  It's done by:
> 
> 1.  touch /reconfigure
> 2.  type "b -r" at the boot prompt
> 3.  reboot -r (possibly, not entirely sure)

Hmm, not sure that I had to do this, but doing this shouldn't hurt.

> 2.  Although the device really isn't used, it would be easier to have the system 
> create a link in /dev pointing to it.  This can be done by adding something 
> similar to the following in /etc/devlink.tab:
> 
> type=ddi_display;minor=physmap          physmap
> Unfortunately, using "ddi_display" means the link ends up in /dev/fbs.  Changing 
> the type might move it into /dev directly, but I haven't tested that.

I tried adding type=ddi_pseudo;minor=physmap<tab>physmap to /etc/devlink.tab but
it wouldn't work so I didn't mention it in the README file. Perhaps I did something
stupid.

> BTW, it's suggested that ddi_create_minor_node() is called as then you can 
> specify the exact type you want used by the devlink entry.
Afraid I'm too tired to parse this sentence...

> Anyway, the bonus of creating the link is that then there is no need to search 
> for the device name if/when you decide to have glx automatically configure the 
> base address for the memory.
True. But I couldn't get it to work on my system. I'll try it today as well.

regards
Andreas Ehliar