> > As Alan pointed out on IRC, it won't. But providing the means to do it > cleanly is certainly good basically. The question is exactly where it > belongs. I suggested to do this work on a branch for the time being, and > got zero feedback. I don't know what that's supposed to mean; some > people take silence as approval, but I don't.
I'd be on for placing it on a branch, the main issue I have with it is resetting VGA cards isn't IMHO the DRMs job, there are lots of 2D cards with no DRM that might need resetting, so I think architecturally it doesn't fit with the current DRM, now if the idea of the generic video card driver shim in the kernel that both fb and drm could use was to become a reality then I think this functionality could quite happily sit in that layer, but I don't see that particular task starting pre-2.7 if at all .. > What will happen if userland fails to restore it? I persume we'll lock up, but you need root so shooting yourself in the foot is allowed.. Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
