From: Michael Marineau <marineam@engr.orst.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation update for radeonfb
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:34:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4311148A.7000803@engr.orst.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43111298.80507@engr.orst.edu>
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Update documentation to reflect that this patch is now in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <marineam@engr.orst.edu>
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Michael Marineau
marineam@engr.orst.edu
Oregon State University
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Index: linux-2.6.13-rc7/Documentation/power/video.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13-rc7.orig/Documentation/power/video.txt
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc7/Documentation/power/video.txt
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ There are a few types of systems where v
vbestate restore < /tmp/delme; setfont <whatever>, and your video
should work.
-(7) on some systems, it is possible to boot most of kernel, and then
- POSTing bios works. Ole Rohne has patch to do just that at
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/patch-radeonfb-2.6.11-rc2-mm2.
+(7) on some systems, it is possible to POST the bios from within the
+ kernel which allows for the use of a framebuffer. The radeonfb incudes
+ this capability.
Now, if you pass acpi_sleep=something, and it does not work with your
bios, you'll get a hard crash during resume. Be careful. Also it is
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-28 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-28 1:25 [PATCH 0/3] Radeon acpi vgapost Michael Marineau
2005-08-28 1:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] Generic " Michael Marineau
2005-08-28 8:07 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-28 20:56 ` Jiri Slaby
2005-08-30 10:51 ` Dave Airlie
2005-08-28 1:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] Radeon " Michael Marineau
2005-08-28 1:34 ` Michael Marineau [this message]
2005-08-28 5:12 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-28 7:44 ` Michael Marineau
2005-08-28 18:08 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-28 6:54 ` Manuel Lauss
2005-08-28 7:31 ` [PATCH 4/3] Radeon acpi vgapost only Rv250 (M9) Michael Marineau
2005-08-28 12:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] Radeon acpi vgapost Matthew Garrett
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