Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2007 16:59:03 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem |
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:16:47AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> The only reason the VBIOS is run is to initially reset the card. Once > we get the card reset it isn't used any more. For almost all cards > this is the only way to reset them, we have insufficient information > to write this ourselves.
For suspend/resume to ever work reliably, we need to be able to reinitialise cards without BIOS support. It would be more useful to spend time on that.
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