On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:02:09PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/17/05, Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ben,
> > 
> > Can you provide more detail here ?
> > 
> > The current situation is that when fbdev is loaded the DRM falls back
> > to using the sysdev approach. If fbdev isn't loaded it takes direct
> > control as the DRM becomes a real PCI driver and accesses the PCI functions
> > for suspend/resume directly.
> 
> The code for DRM conditionally taking direct control of the device is
> only in DRM CVS. It was rejected as a kernel submission.

I realize that Jon, I'm trying to understand the issues with sysdev regardless
of the current situation with the kernel.

Alan.


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