Re: [Q] How to tell we're using the KMS (during suspend/resume) outside the graphics driver

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> As far as the ACPI video driver goes, acpi_get_physical_pci_device() 
> will give you something to work with.

Hmm.  Did you mean acpi_get_physical_device()?

Which acpi_device should I call that for?

> For the console-switching case, I think the most reasonable plan is probably
> to add a flag to the console drivers to indicate whether or not they support
> reprogramming the hardware themselves, and then walk all active console
> drivers. There'd need to be a way for fb drivers to tell fbcon that they can
> handle it.

Yes, that sounds reasonable.

Rafael
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