Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume

Linus Torvalds
2006-06-25T01:05:14Z

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > I think requiring X to reinitialize the screen for us is perfectly fine.
>
> When X can :) Wether we need X or some other userland based emulator,

Right. X usually can, but regardless, if you end up doing something like a
vm86 mode post through userland emulation, it's still better done in
_user_ land than in the kernel.

> Out of curiosity, do you get the video back at all on the mini ? Or will
> we have at some point to get code to do a full re-initialization of the
> intel video chip ?

We already do. The current i810 driver tree does it all (in the
"modesetting" branch).

So on the Mac Mini, I can have full X with all the bells and whistles, and
no BIOS calls used anywhere.

Linus