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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:32:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218187924.24157.338.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721214025.32bb2629@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:39:44 -0400
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 
> > Not all X drivers save and restore fonts on text VTs. Add code to the
> > kernel to explicitly save and restore them on VT switches.
> 
> Please explain why this cannot be done by HAL.

To give you a chance to see the console messages during resume
in case something goes wrong before HAL kicks in ? :-)

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-08  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 19:39 Matthew Garrett
2008-07-21 20:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-08  9:32   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-07-21 20:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-21 20:53   ` Ben Collins
2008-07-21 21:12     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-21 21:37       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-21 21:24         ` Alan Cox
2008-08-08  7:49           ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-21 21:23     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-21 21:40       ` Ben Collins
2008-07-21 22:18         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-21 22:29           ` Ben Collins
2008-07-21 20:54   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-22  7:59     ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-08-08  7:44 ` Pavel Machek

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