Re: [PATCH 06/29] gma500: revamp frame buffer creation and handling

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Jun 29 2011 - 14:42:06 EST


On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:38:59 -0700
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:04:30 +0100
> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Restructure this to work the same way as the i915 frame buffer does. That
> > cleans up various chunks of code.
> >
> > We can now set a mode in modetest but mode restore is a bit iffy
>
> Note that modetest doesn't do the VT dance, so if you don't clean
> things up in your ->lastclose the right mode probably won't come back.

Yes I figured that and its a later patch. Really the core DRI code ought
to do this - it has the knowledge to sort the mess out (it knows how to
do it for sysrq-v)

Alan
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