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Hi! > >Actually the suspend/resume has to be in userspace, X just re-posts > >the video ROM and reloads the registers... so the repost on resume has > >to happen... so some component needs to be in userspace.. > > I'd like to see the simple video POST program get finished. All of the > pieces are lying around. A key step missing is to getting klibc added > to the kernel tree which is being worked on. > > BenH has the emu86 code. I agree that is simpler to always use emu86 > and not bother with vm86. He also pointed out that we need to copy the > image back into the kernel after the ROM runs. Right now you can only > read the ROM image from the sysfs attribute. The ROM code has support > for keeping an image in RAM, it just isn't hooked up to the sysfs > attribute for writing it. Actually, vbetool is the piece of puzzle we currently use to reinitialize graphics cards after resume. (suspend.sf.net). We currently do it all in userspace; it would be cleaner to do it as call_usermodehelper() from kernel. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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