Re: fbdev and power management

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 19:45, James Simmons wrote:
> > My concern is that there has been:
> > - 4 months of non-exposure of this work
> > - 4 months of making the current system work
> > - and putting it in will require a fair number of drivers to be 
> >   re-worked.
> > 
> > Apart from driver re-work and that the core interfaces are supposed to
> > be stable, what are the technical arguments against merging it, say,
> > today?
> 
> This is the reason I have waited. 

Those changes will only affect drivers, there is still need for
some mecanism to deal with fbcon. I'll send you a patch before the
end of the week hopefully. There may be a better way of doing it
than my patch by having fbcon be someway a child of the HW driver
in the device-tree, but it's a bit nasty right now, and my patch
adds a more generic way to notify "clients" of fbdev's (like fbcon)
of events at the low level that could be used for hotplug monitor
change notification or whatever...

Ben




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