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. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
