Re: [RFC] full suspend/resume support for i915 DRM driver

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 09:35:41 EST


Hi!

> We seem to see a lot of bug reports along the lines of, "my machine
> resumes but I can't see X" or, "I can see X but only with a bright
> flashlight", etc. These sorts of problems are due to the fact that
> the X server isn't designed to do full state save/restore, and none
> of the available kernel drivers do it on its behalf.
>
> Since intelfb and the rest of the Intel drivers are fairly incompatible,
> this patch makes the DRM bind to the PCI device so it can register real
> suspend/resume handlers. Those handlers take care of saving and
> restoring enough state for X to come back reliably on at least one of my
> problematic test machines, but text mode still has trouble (still
> debugging VGA state save/restore, including trying to save/restore
> actual VRAM contents for possible hibernate support).
>
> How does this approach look? Is a new DRM driver flag a good thing for
> similar situations with other drivers? Thoughts?

Looks okay to me... from very quick look.

> + if (!i915_pipe_enabled(dev, pipe))
> + return;
> +
> + if (pipe == PIPE_A)
> + array = dev_priv->savePaletteA;


coding style, we probably want save_palette_A.

> + unsigned long reg = pipe == PIPE_A ? PALETTE_A : PALETTE_B;

Uff. Mixing = and == and ? in one expression is evil.

I think I seen some #if 0 code.... just remove that.
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