Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271007AbTHGVje (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:39:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271021AbTHGVje (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:39:34 -0400 Received: from smtp2.clear.net.nz ([203.97.37.27]:46759 "EHLO smtp2.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271007AbTHGVjd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:39:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:38:59 +1200 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] Framebuffer: 2nd try: client notification mecanism & PM In-reply-to: <1060263168.593.77.camel@gaston> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Pavel Machek , James Simmons , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list , Pavel Machek Message-id: <1060292180.3507.27.camel@laptop-linux> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <1060249101.1077.67.camel@gaston> <20030807100309.GB166@elf.ucw.cz> <1060263168.593.77.camel@gaston> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1637 Lines: 46 Hi. Would this play well with the suspend process itself displaying output? (Eg progress, errors...). Regards, Nigel On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 01:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 12:03, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > I believe solution to this is simple: always switch to kernel-owned > > console during suspend. (swsusp does it, there's patch for S3 to do > > the same). That way, Xfree (or qtopia or whoever) should clean up > > after themselves and leave the console to the kernel. (See > > kernel/power/console.c) > > I admit I quite like this solution. It would also help displaying > something sane (blank, pattern, whatever) on screen during driver > teardown instead of the junk left by X... > > I'll look into including that switch into my pmac code as well > and see if it works properly in all cases (I think so). Also, > recent DRI CVS finally has working suspend/resume (works on > console switch too). > > Ben. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6, NIV. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/