On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 09:58 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Is it possible to add the suspend/resume support to Intelfb instead of
> the DRM driver and then just load both drivers? Do we really want to
> start building another suspend/resume infrastructure inside of DRM if
> it is possible to address the problem through existing means? It seems
> to me like this could get very complicated if both DRM and fbdev both
> start to try controlling suspend/resume.
> 
> Ben, to fill you in Alan has added hooks in DRM to create a sysdev
> device. Sysdev devices have suspend/resume hooks thus allowing DRM
> into the suspend/resume process. This gets around the problem of fbdev
> being attached to the hooks.

As I have explained earlier, sysdev is _NOT_ the solution. You need a
real PCI-level suspend/resume callback. sysdev's are called way too late
in the suspend process.

Ben.




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