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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers
Date: 14 Apr 2003 21:18:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050347907.5575.89.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A84725A261@orsmsx401.jf.intel.com>


> All I am saying is that on Windows, the driver gets no help from the
> BIOS, APM, or ACPI, but yet it restores the video to full working
> condition. I understand that this sounds complicated, but since there is
> an implementation that already does this then I think we have to assume
> it's possible. :) Perhaps we should start with older, simpler gfx hw, or
> maybe POST the bios, but only as an interim solution until gfx drivers
> get better in this area.

It's definitely possible as MacOS does that as well. But I doubt
the card vendors will ever provide us with the necessary informations...

Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-14 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-14 19:07 Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 19:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-04-14 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 21:07   ` Kernel Sockets Programming: closing sockets? Lamont Granquist
2003-04-23 15:34 ` Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-14 21:09 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-16 18:39 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:36   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-17 13:35   ` Alan Cox
2003-04-17 14:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 15:09       ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:09         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 15:47           ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:56             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 16:24               ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18  7:37             ` Greg KH
2003-04-18  7:51               ` John Bradford
2003-04-18  9:10               ` Russell King
2003-04-18 11:18                 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18 11:30               ` Alan Cox
2003-04-29  8:28         ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-17 14:59     ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:04       ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 17:09 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 17:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:29 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-14 10:00 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 10:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-16 18:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:29   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:32 ` Pavel Machek

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