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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/vgaarbiter.rst b/Documentation/gpu/vgaarbiter.rst index 0b41b051d021..d1e953712cc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/vgaarbiter.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/vgaarbiter.rst @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ Section 7, Legacy Devices. The Resource Access Control (RAC) module inside the X server [0] existed for the legacy VGA arbitration task (besides other bus management tasks) when more -than one legacy device co-exists on the same machine. But the problem happens +than one legacy device co-exist 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. Moreover, +(e.g. two servers in parallel). Their address assignments conflict. Moreover, ideally, being a userspace application, it is not the role of the X server to control bus resources. Therefore an arbitration scheme outside of the X server is needed to control the sharing of these resources. This document introduces @@ -100,13 +100,13 @@ In-kernel interface .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/vgaarb.h :internal: -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/vgaarb.c :export: libpciaccess ------------ -To use the vga arbiter char device it was implemented an API inside the +To use the vga arbiter char device, an API was implemented inside the libpciaccess library. One field was added to struct pci_device (each device on the system):: @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ enhancing the kernel code to adapt as a kernel module and also did the implementation of the user space side [3]. Now (2009) Tiago Vignatti and Dave Airlie finally put this work in shape and queued to Jesse Barnes' PCI tree. -0) http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=4b42448a2388d40f257774fbffdccaea87bd0347 -1) http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-March/006663.html -2) http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-March/006745.html -3) http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-October/029507.html +0) https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=4b42448a2388d40f257774fbffdccaea87bd0347 +1) https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-March/006663.html +2) https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-March/006745.html +3) https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-October/029507.html |