Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2023, Ahmad Nouralizadeh wrote:

> Thanks Alan and Vladimir!These are very effective clues to help me understand the whole architecture, but I will need some experiments! :D
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> I may continue with this thread later to ask questions about the main problem discussed here (i.e., turning off the screen), if I find my approach feasible! I think that the kernel structure storing
> the display state is `struct drm_crtc_state`, particularly, its `enabled` and `active` fields.
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> There exists a `linux_pm` mailing list which seems to be related to my question. But it seems to be for development purposes, and not for learning! Where do you think I can ask the
> gpu/power-management related questions at the kernel level?

There is no harm in asking - most developers had to learn at some stage.

But I would expect people on linux_pm would be focused on issues other 
than GPU power management.

best

Vladimir Dergachev

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> Regards.
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