From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271021AbTHGVwD (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:52:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271034AbTHGVwD (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:52:03 -0400 Received: from smtp-out2.iol.cz ([194.228.2.87]:22434 "EHLO smtp-out2.iol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271021AbTHGVvc (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:51:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:51:16 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , James Simmons , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] Framebuffer: 2nd try: client notification mecanism & PM Message-ID: <20030807215116.GD413@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1060249101.1077.67.camel@gaston> <20030807100309.GB166@elf.ucw.cz> <1060263168.593.77.camel@gaston> <1060292180.3507.27.camel@laptop-linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060292180.3507.27.camel@laptop-linux> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Would this play well with the suspend process itself displaying output? > (Eg progress, errors...). Yes. Pavel ... > > > I believe solution to this is simple: always switch to kernel-owned > > > console during suspend. (swsusp does it, there's patch for S3 to do > > > the same). That way, Xfree (or qtopia or whoever) should clean up > > > after themselves and leave the console to the kernel. (See > > > kernel/power/console.c) > > > > I admit I quite like this solution. It would also help displaying > > something sane (blank, pattern, whatever) on screen during driver > > teardown instead of the junk left by X... > > > > I'll look into including that switch into my pmac code as well > > and see if it works properly in all cases (I think so). Also, > > recent DRI CVS finally has working suspend/resume (works on > > console switch too). > > > > Ben. > > - > > 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/ -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]