[PATCH] intel/uxa: do copy fb at startup.

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 08:18:37 PDT 2012


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:26:34 +0100, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Copy the current framebuffer for smooth wayland->gdm handoff.
>>
>> This has been hanging around in Fedora for too long now, and we've
>> dropped the feature a few times, and yes I know the Simpsons did it^W^W^W
>> SNA does it.
>>
>> I've updated the code to have some of the better fixes from nouveau.
>
> I wasn't convinced that we needed to perform the copy on every VT
> switch, so I dropped those chunks. If it is required, please could you
> resubmit those with an explanation. Otherwise I fixed up the error
> handling during intel_copy_fb() and pushed. Thanks.

Now that you mention it I can see no reason for it either, it was just
in the original patch,
and I rebased it. but yeah it makes no sense, so thanks for dropping it.

Now I just have to stop the my eDP panel flashing once on the
plymouth->X transition,

Dave.


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