On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:46:23 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <ar...@infradead.org> wrote:
> >From dfe256fc9d28f240f1a84fb4c3dfed4a4e18d5d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > >2001 > From: Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:32:47 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] KMS: Do the actual mode setting from asynchronous > context > > The mode setting (and the expensive part of mode detection) can take > quite a bit of time, and will delay the kernel boot quite a bit. > > This patch puts these two parts into async context, so that the > normal execution of the system continues while the slow hardware > probing and poking happens. I'm curious if the patch I recently posted to add the idea of a primary head to the driver have a similar effect? It avoids probing secondary connectors if the primary one is found, so it should provide the same speedup as this one. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
