EXA - current status with Intel driver

Lukas Hejtmanek xhejtman at ics.muni.cz
Fri Sep 28 10:08:50 PDT 2007


On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:51:43AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Yeah, suspend/resume isn't fully supported on several platforms, and the 
> X and driver callbacks aren't very well suited to it (afaik most 
> drivers try to do suspend/resume state updates in Enter/LeaveVT, which 
> is also used for VT switch).  There will be full support once we have 
> kernel modesetting in the DRM however; should be nice and fast too.

Eric's new buffers are responsible for suspend/resume breakage. Without them
the machine suspends/resumes mostly OK. So I guess there is some problem with
restoring GTT or the buffers. Which may be solved by kernel modesetting DRM
though.

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek



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