Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:13:43 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.3-rc3 radeonfb: Problems with new (and old) driver |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Do we want to pay the cost (in time) of a full mode set + engine reset > on each unblank ? I could limit myself to restoring the accel engine, > that faster, but with X also not always restoring the console mode > properly, I'd have preferred re-setting the whole mode...
Well, on blanking, we do actually already pass in a parameter that says "this is not a full blank, it's just a move to graphics mode". It would make 100% sense to add the _same_ parameter to the unblank code.
That would just make the code more logical, and it should fix your concerns, no?
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