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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
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Hi.

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 04:29, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> > Why not? Of course you won't get any output before the graphics card has been
> > re-initialized to a sane and usable state...
> >
>
> True. I do it on my Dell 600m (Radeon 9000M) using usermodehelper and
> it works just fine. It works both with VGA and X. I need to split up
> the thaw_processes into two stages though. It may not work with fb as
> fb driver resumes earlier. I use the patch below for the kernel and a
> userlevel x86 emulator.
>
> I have to say though, it will help if we have a such an emulator in the kernel.

Just a quick question: is this the right way to distinguish kernel
threads? I've been checking if the process has an mm context (if p->mm).

> + if (p->parent->pid != 1)
> + continue;

Regards,

Nigel
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