Re: [RFC] full suspend/resume support for i915 DRM driver

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> We seem to see a lot of bug reports along the lines of, "my machine
> resumes but I can't see X" or, "I can see X but only with a bright
> flashlight", etc.  These sorts of problems are due to the fact that
> the X server isn't designed to do full state save/restore, and none
> of the available kernel drivers do it on its behalf.
> 
> Since intelfb and the rest of the Intel drivers are fairly incompatible,
> this patch makes the DRM bind to the PCI device so it can register real
> suspend/resume handlers.  Those handlers take care of saving and
> restoring enough state for X to come back reliably on at least one of my
> problematic test machines, but text mode still has trouble (still
> debugging VGA state save/restore, including trying to save/restore
> actual VRAM contents for possible hibernate support).
> 
> How does this approach look?  Is a new DRM driver flag a good thing for
> similar situations with other drivers?  Thoughts?

Looks okay to me... from very quick look.

> +	if (!i915_pipe_enabled(dev, pipe))
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (pipe == PIPE_A)
> +		array = dev_priv->savePaletteA;


coding style, we probably want save_palette_A.

> +	unsigned long reg = pipe == PIPE_A ? PALETTE_A : PALETTE_B;

Uff. Mixing = and == and ? in one expression is evil.

I think I seen some #if 0 code.... just remove that.
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