Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932400AbWE3UZA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 16:25:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932401AbWE3UZA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 16:25:00 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:19390 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932400AbWE3UY7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 16:24:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 22:24:01 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Dave Airlie Cc: "D. Hazelton" , Jon Smirl , Alan Cox , Kyle Moffett , Manu Abraham , linux cbon , Helge Hafting , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Message-ID: <20060530202401.GC16106@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605272245.22320.dhazelton@enter.net> <9e4733910605272027o7b59ea5n5d402dabdd7167cb@mail.gmail.com> <200605280112.01639.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605281613y3c44095bu116a84a66f5ba1d7@mail.gmail.com> <20060529102339.GA746@elf.ucw.cz> <21d7e9970605290336m1f80b08nebbd2a995be959cb@mail.gmail.com> <20060529124840.GD746@elf.ucw.cz> <21d7e9970605291623k3636f7hcc12028cad5e962b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970605291623k3636f7hcc12028cad5e962b@mail.gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1277 Lines: 27 Hi! > >No, to the contrary. suspend/resume can't ever work properly with > >vgacon and vesafb. It works okay with radeonfb tooday, and in fact > >radeonfb is neccessary today for saving power over S3. > > But the things is today for many users suspend/resume to RAM works for > people running X drivers, I know on my laptop that my radeon > suspends/resumes fine when running vgacon/DRM/accelerated X, it > doesn't suspend/resume at all well when running vgacon on its own of > course. or with radeonfb for that matter. so I still believe the > suspend/resume code for a card can live in userspace if necessary but > it just shouldn't be part of X... it needs to be part of another > graphics controller process. So we are mostly in agreement. I'd prefer to have suspend/resume code in kernel in cases it is simple... but separate userspace process is better than having it in X. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/