On May 19, 08 20:52:49 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Now I would be willing to provide a drm tuneable sorta like memory 
> overcommit that could be used on embedded systems and basically says I've 
> designed my system so I never need suspend/resume and I really udnerstand 
> what I'm doing, so don't ensure I have backing store for VRAM allocations. 
> This would never be the default.

At least on suspend to RAM many GPUs can probably be programmed to keep
VRAM contents alive. In that case you wouldn't have to save that data
as well.

Matthias

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