[PATCH] drm/fbdev: Make skip_vt_switch the default

Li, Samuel Samuel.Li at amd.com
Wed Nov 28 16:00:42 UTC 2018


Reviewed-by: Samuel Li <samuel.li at amd.com>



On 2018-11-28 3:20 a.m., Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 08:17:04AM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Op 27-11-18 om 18:34 schreef Daniel Vetter:
>>> KMS drivers really should all be able to restore their display state
>>> on resume without fbcon helping out. So make this the default.
>>>
>>> Since I'm not entirely foolish, make it only a default, which drivers
>>> can still override. That way when the inevitable regression report
>>> happens I can fix things up with a one-liner plus FIXME comment that
>>> someone should fix up the suspend/resume code in that driver.
>>>
>>> But at least all new drivers won't be broken by accident as soon as
>>> you turn off fbcon because "suspend/resume worked when I tested it".
>>>
>>> v2: Keep this for radeon because of
>>>
>>> commit 18c437caa5b18a235dd65cec224eab54bebcee65
>>> Author: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
>>> Date:   Tue Nov 14 17:19:29 2017 -0500
>>>
>>>     Revert "drm/radeon: dont switch vt on suspend"
>>>
>>> Thanks to Michel Dänzer for pointing this one out.
>>
>> Maybe just reload the gamma lut on resume for radeon, instead of relying on fbcon?
> 
> It also caused random sound issues and other fun. Also, afaiui radeon does
> load the lut. Except because of timing or bad luck, it doesn't work
> reliably, and the vt switch doing it a 2nd time helps out.
> -Daniel
> 
>> Otherwise patch looks sane, would be nice if radeon was fixed instead of worked around.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>


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