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Message-ID: <20100623084305.033df51e@virtuousgeek.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:43:05 -0700
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt/console: try harder to print output when panicing
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:12:59 +1000
Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
>
> Jesse's initial patch commit said:
>
> "At panic time (i.e. when oops_in_progress is set) we should try a bit
> harder to update the screen and make sure output gets to the VT, since
> some drivers are capable of flipping back to it.
>
> So make sure we try to unblank and update the display if called from a
> panic context."
>
> I've enhanced this to add a flag to the vc that console layer can set
> to indicate they want this behaviour to occur. This also adds support
> to fbcon for that flag and adds an fb flag for drivers to indicate
> they want to use the support. It enables this for KMS drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
> ---
Yeah this looks a little nicer, thanks.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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