Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751248AbWIFO51 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:57:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751246AbWIFO51 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:57:27 -0400 Received: from outbound-kan.frontbridge.com ([63.161.60.23]:39299 "EHLO outbound1-kan-R.bigfish.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751243AbWIFO5Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:57:25 -0400 X-BigFish: VP X-Server-Uuid: 5FC0E2DF-CD44-48CD-883A-0ED95B391E89 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:58:49 -0600 From: "Jordan Crouse" To: "Pavel Machek" cc: "Jim Gettys" , "Brown, Len" , "Linux Kernel ML" , "Dominik Brodowski" , "ACPI ML" , "Adam Belay" , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , "Arjan van de Ven" , devel@laptop.org, "Bjorn Helgaas" Subject: Re: ACPI: Idle Processor PM Improvements Message-ID: <20060906145849.GE2623@cosmic.amd.com> References: <20060830194317.GA9116@srcf.ucam.org> <200608311713.21618.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <1157070616.7974.232.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060904130933.GC6279@ucw.cz> <1157466710.6011.262.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060906103725.GA4987@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20060906103725.GA4987@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Sep 2006 14:57:17.0013 (UTC) FILETIME=[BEB78050:01C6D1C4] X-WSS-ID: 68E03E470Y42415596-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1036 Lines: 35 On 06/09/06 12:37 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > 2.4 and 2.6 are *very* different here. You'll probably need to optimize freezer > > > in 2.6 a bit... > > > > > > > Among other problems: e.g. 2.4 did not automatically do a VT switch; 2.6 > > does; we'll have to have a way to signal "we're a sane display driver; > > don't switch away from me on suspend". > > Not like that, please. > > You are using X running over framebuffer, right? So that kernel is > controlling the graphics hardware. In such case it is safe to avoid VT > switch. Actually not - the Geode GX has full 2D hardware acceleration with a complete X driver to match. No Xfbdev here. Jordan Pavel -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - 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/