[PATCH 17/17] drm/cirrus: Use VGA macro constants to unblank
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 12:33:55 UTC 2023
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for taking a look at the patches.
>
> Am 16.02.23 um 12:33 schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 05:15:17PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> > > Set the VGA bit for unblanking with macro constants instead of magic
> > > values. No functional changes.
> >
> > blank/unblank should work simliar to bochs (see commit 250e743915d4),
> > that is maybe a nice thing to add of you modernize the driver anyway.
> Yeah, it's the VGA PAS field. [1] But is it really called blanking? PAS
> controls palette access, but blanking is sounds more like DPMS.
Yes, strictly speaking it is not the same thing. DPMS blank will send
the monitor into suspend mode which this does not. On virtual hardware
there isn't much of a difference though ;)
take care,
Gerd
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