Re: [Q] How to tell we're using the KMS (during suspend/resume) outside the graphics driver

[Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:08:28PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2010, James Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Second, in the KMS case, we'd be able to skip the kernel VT switch, because
> > > > > the KMS driver uses its own framebuffer anyway.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, is there any reasonable way to check that from the outside of the graphics
> > > > > driver?  It should be general enough to cover the cases when there are two
> > > > > graphics adapters with different drivers in the system and so forth.
> > > > 
> > > > Inside the kernel? If you have a struct pci_dev you can get the
> > > > associated struct drm_device with pci_get_drvdata and then check the
> > > > KMS feature: drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET).
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I know that.
> > > 
> > > > I'm note sure how to check that a device is graphic card though :|
> > > 
> > > Well, that's the "outside of the graphics driver" part of my question. :-)
> > 
> > if ((pdev->class >> 8) == PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA)
> > 	....
> 
> I'm not sure if searching through all PCI devices really is an option.
> 
Why not? The VGA arbitration code tracks a list of VGA class devices, so
could easily be queried. It looks like it might need a bit more work for
PCI hotplug, but it should already have all of the infrastructure you
need for getting at the pdev for the suspend/resume case.