From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261725AbVBSQvn (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:51:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261726AbVBSQvn (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:51:43 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([213.162.118.85]:13785 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261725AbVBSQvl (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:51:41 -0500 From: Matthew Garrett To: Jon Smirl Cc: Matthew Garrett , lkml , fbdev In-Reply-To: <9e47339105021907561c4f408c@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910502181251ea2b95e@mail.gmail.com> <20050218210822.GB8588@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <9e47339105021813146cf69759@mail.gmail.com> <9e47339105021907561c4f408c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:51:01 +0000 Message-Id: <1108831861.4085.172.camel@tyrosine> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 213.162.118.93 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Subject: Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1 (built Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:07 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cavan.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 10:56 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > I didn't say make framebuffer depend on DRM, you can still unload DRM > before suspend. It's the other way around DRM needs framebuffer. > Suspend/resume are part of this. In the current model there is no way > for the DRM driver to see the suspend/resume events. I haven't tried > it but I suspect a suspend/resume with DRM running has a bad outcome > right now. Right. But for most machines, it's not possible to successfully resume if an accelerated framebuffer driver is loaded. Until that's fixed, tying DRM functionality to the framebuffer will make it impractical to use DRM on laptops. That's a regression from the current situation. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org