Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266569AbUITOFb (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:05:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266574AbUITOFb (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:05:31 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:49111 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266569AbUITOF1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:05:27 -0400 Subject: Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes From: Alan Cox To: Keith Packard Cc: Jon Smirl , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , DRI Devel , lkml In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1095685340.26652.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:02:22 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 15 On Sul, 2004-09-19 at 21:40, Keith Packard wrote: > I just need to know where the frame buffer lives; it can move or change > pitch at any time. I can even deal with the frame buffer moving without > warning if necessary. What I can't handle is off-screen memory suddenly > disappearing on me; I need to be able to pull any off-screen data back to > main memory before things get shuffled around. The last one of these you can't get in the hotplug case but thats currently a pretty unusual situation compared to the others - 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/