Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261625AbVBEBFM (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:05:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264985AbVBEBFI (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:05:08 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58515 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266623AbVBDWJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:09:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:09:49 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons X-X-Sender: jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org To: Pavel Machek cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Jon Smirl , ncunningham@linuxmail.org, ACPI List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume In-Reply-To: <20050204163019.GC1290@elf.ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <20050122134205.GA9354@wsc-gmbh.de> <4201825B.2090703@gmx.net> <420217DB.709@gmx.net> <4202A972.1070003@gmx.net> <20050203225410.GB1110@elf.ucw.cz> <1107474198.5727.9.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <4202DF7B.2000506@gmx.net> <9e47339105020321031ccaabb@mail.gmail.com> <420367CF.7060206@gmx.net> <20050204163019.GC1290@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 908 Lines: 18 > > int video_helper(struct video_actions *what_to_do) > > I do not know, synchronously executing userland code from kernel seems > like wrong thing to do. I'm not a fan for this either. The good news is most graphics cards don't require these tricks. The only ones that do are the ix86 cards. The real solution would be if the hradware vendors open the parts of the spec to do what we need. Many of the older cards could be supported in this way if we talk to the vendors. They shouldn't care if the specs are released anymore. The problem would be the latest Radeon card and NVIDIA cards which unfortunely are the most common cards for x86 platforms ;-( - 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/