Re: [PATCH] Framebuffer: 2nd try: client notification mecanism & PM

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> Would this play well with the suspend process itself displaying output?
> (Eg progress, errors...).

Yes.
								Pavel


...
> > > I believe solution to this is simple: always switch to kernel-owned
> > > console during suspend. (swsusp does it, there's patch for S3 to do
> > > the same). That way, Xfree (or qtopia or whoever) should clean up
> > > after themselves and leave the console to the kernel. (See
> > > kernel/power/console.c)
> > 
> > I admit I quite like this solution. It would also help displaying
> > something sane (blank, pattern, whatever) on screen during driver
> > teardown instead of the junk left by X...
> > 
> > I'll look into including that switch into my pmac code as well
> > and see if it works properly in all cases (I think so). Also,
> > recent DRI CVS finally has working suspend/resume (works on
> > console switch too).
> > 
> > Ben.
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