Hi! > > Looking at the drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c, it sounds to me that we should > > always do pm_set_vt_switch(0), as omapdss restores everything just fine > > on resume. Although it makes me wonder how it works if there are two > > display controllers, one needing the switch and the other not... > > I wondered that too. It would seem to make more sense for > pm_set_vt_switch(0) to be the default, that drivers which need the textmode > switch should call (1). But I suspect there are "historical reasons" for the > current situation. Well... historically, we did not have drivers for graphics cards -- kernel did not know how to handle it, only X knew. For cards that do not have kernel driver, only X one, we need to switch vts. For cards that have proper driver, we should be able to survive without VT switch. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
