[PATCH] drm/i915: restore only the mode of this driver on lastclose (v2)

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Apr 13 00:00:33 PDT 2011


On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:35:55 +1000, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> 
> i915 calls the panic handler function on last close to reset the modes,
> however this is a really bad idea for multi-gpu machines, esp shareable
> gpus machines. So add a new entry point for the driver to just restore
> its own fbcon mode.
> 
> v2: move code into fb helper, fix panic code to block mode change on
> powered off GPUs.

2 bugs in one patch?  This could be split into 3 steps... ;-)

Aside from that, looks good.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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