Re: my opinion about VGA devices

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 00:10 schrieb Tomas Carnecky:
> I think this would make the suspend/resume/access/switching etc problems 
> much easier to solve since the kernel module could tell the library to 
> stop drawing/accessing mmap'ed memory etc. (or if the OpenGL rendering 
> is done in the kernel module it could just discard the render commands).
> Since the user has no direct access to mmap'ed memory and other critical 
> sections of the device, the driver can implement proper power managment 
> for suspend/resume etc.
> 
> Well... that's it.. any comments? I'm sure you have.. :)

You are making damn sure that there will be no useful bug reports
about problems with resuming from S3.

	Regards
		Oliver

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