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. Thanks anyway. Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
