linux-kernel - Re: video resume stuff

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Message-ID: <470514E7.4030809@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:29:27 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jikos@...os.cz
Subject: Re: video resume stuff

Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:05:13 +0200
>> Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm thinking about how to clean up video resume/how to get it to work
>>> for non-VESA video modes (jikos' case).
>>
>> I suspect in the medium run, the video mode setting stuff that's moving
>> into the kernel is the real answer to this problem... maybe it's more
>> efficient to move that in in a hurry ;)
> 
> Violently agreed... but we still want fallback for vesafb ;-).

It should also be pointed out that the first mode setting might very 
well be different from an already-in-operation modeset, if the procedure 
that we have access to doesn't initialize everything necessary.

	-hpa
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