From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jordan Crouse" Subject: Re: ACPI: Idle Processor PM Improvements Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:58:49 -0600 Message-ID: <20060906145849.GE2623@cosmic.amd.com> References: <20060830194317.GA9116@srcf.ucam.org> <200608311713.21618.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <1157070616.7974.232.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060904130933.GC6279@ucw.cz> <1157466710.6011.262.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060906103725.GA4987@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outbound-kan.frontbridge.com ([63.161.60.23]:39299 "EHLO outbound1-kan-R.bigfish.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751243AbWIFO5Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:57:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060906103725.GA4987@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Jim Gettys , "Brown, Len" , Linux Kernel ML , Dominik Brodowski , ACPI ML , Adam Belay , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , Arjan van de Ven , devel@laptop.org, Bjorn Helgaas On 06/09/06 12:37 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > 2.4 and 2.6 are *very* different here. You'll probably need to optimize freezer > > > in 2.6 a bit... > > > > > > > Among other problems: e.g. 2.4 did not automatically do a VT switch; 2.6 > > does; we'll have to have a way to signal "we're a sane display driver; > > don't switch away from me on suspend". > > Not like that, please. > > You are using X running over framebuffer, right? So that kernel is > controlling the graphics hardware. In such case it is safe to avoid VT > switch. Actually not - the Geode GX has full 2D hardware acceleration with a complete X driver to match. No Xfbdev here. Jordan Pavel -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.