Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.3-rc3 radeonfb: Problems with new (and old) driver | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:18:12 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 09:13, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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?
Yes, I was looking into this at the moment. Who else but fbcon and vgacon will need fixing ? I suppose all the xxxxcon in drivers/video/console, do you "see" any other ?
Ben.
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