Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270158AbUJTL1k (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:27:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270122AbUJTL1G (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:27:06 -0400 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:53961 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270034AbUJTLSC (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:18:02 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Tomas Carnecky Subject: Re: my opinion about VGA devices Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:18:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <417590F3.1070807@dbservice.com> In-Reply-To: <417590F3.1070807@dbservice.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410201318.26430.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 22 Am Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 00:10 schrieb Tomas Carnecky: > I think this would make the suspend/resume/access/switching etc problems > much easier to solve since the kernel module could tell the library to > stop drawing/accessing mmap'ed memory etc. (or if the OpenGL rendering > is done in the kernel module it could just discard the render commands). > Since the user has no direct access to mmap'ed memory and other critical > sections of the device, the driver can implement proper power managment > for suspend/resume etc. > > Well... that's it.. any comments? I'm sure you have.. :) You are making damn sure that there will be no useful bug reports about problems with resuming from S3. Regards Oliver - 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/