[Intel-gfx] Interrupt handling across leave/entervt

[Keith Packard]

On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:29 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> The problem with disabling interrupts is that the server may wait on a vblank 
> event before the DDX has had a chance to call into the entervt ioctl, 
> resulting in a hang if say compiz is running before the VT switch (see bug 
> 18879).

How about waking up anyone blocked on vblank at vt switch time instead?

I kinda like the idea of not touching the HW while switched away.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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