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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: my opinion about VGA devices
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:18:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410201318.26430.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417590F3.1070807@dbservice.com>

Am Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 00:10 schrieb Tomas Carnecky:
> I think this would make the suspend/resume/access/switching etc problems 
> much easier to solve since the kernel module could tell the library to 
> stop drawing/accessing mmap'ed memory etc. (or if the OpenGL rendering 
> is done in the kernel module it could just discard the render commands).
> Since the user has no direct access to mmap'ed memory and other critical 
> sections of the device, the driver can implement proper power managment 
> for suspend/resume etc.
> 
> Well... that's it.. any comments? I'm sure you have.. :)

You are making damn sure that there will be no useful bug reports
about problems with resuming from S3.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-19 22:10 Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 11:18 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-10-20 12:31   ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 12:56     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 14:14       ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 14:34         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 15:01           ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-20 16:58             ` Matthew Garrett
     [not found]             ` <4178F276.2040501@globalintech.pl>
2004-10-22 11:58               ` Tomas carnecky
2004-10-22 19:13         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-20 20:16     ` Oliver Neukum
2004-10-20 17:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-22  8:29   ` Helge Hafting
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-19 18:51 Tomas Carnecky
2004-10-23 16:11 ` Blizbor

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