Re: Atafb failed to detect the video mode on ARAnyM after kexec

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When doing a kexec (WIP) on ARAnyM while the screen was blanked, the
kexec'd kernel failed to initialize atafb. If the screen isn't
blanked, it works fine.

falcon_blank() clears several videl registers, while falcon_detect()
reads them to detect the current video mode.

I suppose we can't just leave the cleared registers loaded when kexec
support is compiled in, and effect screen blanking in another way
(color map)?

Can the screen be blanked/unblanked from user space (fbset)?

You can unblank from userspace.

Probably the right way is to convert atafb to use a platform device first,
and hook up its shutdown() method later.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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