[CC: linux-fbdev-devel to find out what was wrong with the patch]
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Finally, rc1.
>>>[snipped]
>>>
>>>Please stress test it.
>>>
>>
>>My system comes up with a blank console after hardware suspend and resume.
>>The cursor is still visible, but no text is there. Switching to another
>>console and back fixes it. Vesafb is enabled with vga=791.
>>Hardware is a Toshiba Satellite 4100XCDT notebook with Trident Cyber9525DVD
>>graphics chipset, but this also can be reproduced with Dell notebooks.
>>
>>I just verified the problem exists still with 2.4.20-rc1.
>>A binary search turned up 2.4.18-pre7 as the kernel which broke,
>>specifically the changes made to apm.c back then.
>
>
> Have you tried to revert 2.4.18-pre7's changes to apm.c to make sure it is
> the cause?>
I tried it and found out that my results were incorrect. The problem was
introduced in 2.4.18-pre1 by the changes to drivers/video/fbcon.c
Reverting the attached patch fixes my problem. However, I am not exactly
sure why a patch intended to fix a PM problem introduced another one.
Regards
Carl-Daniel
diff -Naur -X /home/marcelo/lib/dontdiff linux.orig/drivers/video/fbcon.c linux/drivers/video/fbcon.c
--- linux.orig/drivers/video/fbcon.c Thu Jan 10 20:17:41 2002
+++ linux/drivers/video/fbcon.c Wed Dec 26 16:50:52 2001
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
#include <linux/selection.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/pm.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
@@ -137,6 +138,12 @@
static void fbcon_free_font(struct display *);
static int fbcon_set_origin(struct vc_data *);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PM
+static int pm_fbcon_request(struct pm_dev *dev, pm_request_t rqst, void *data);
+static struct pm_dev *pm_fbcon;
+static int fbcon_sleeping;
+#endif
+
/*
* Emmanuel: fbcon will now use a hardware cursor if the
* low-level driver provides a non-NULL dispsw->cursor pointer,
@@ -233,6 +240,7 @@
static struct timer_list cursor_timer = {
function: cursor_timer_handler
};
+static int use_timer_cursor;
static void cursor_timer_handler(unsigned long dev_addr)
{
@@ -457,11 +465,16 @@
#endif
if (irqres) {
+ use_timer_cursor = 1;
cursor_blink_rate = DEFAULT_CURSOR_BLINK_RATE;
cursor_timer.expires = jiffies+HZ/50;
add_timer(&cursor_timer);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PM
+ pm_fbcon = pm_register(PM_SYS_DEV, PM_SYS_VGA, pm_fbcon_request);
+#endif
+
return display_desc;
}
@@ -1558,6 +1571,10 @@
if (blank < 0) /* Entering graphics mode */
return 0;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PM
+ if (fbcon_sleeping)
+ return 0;
+#endif /* CONFIG_PM */
fbcon_cursor(p->conp, blank ? CM_ERASE : CM_DRAW);
@@ -2446,6 +2463,39 @@
return done ? (LOGO_H + fontheight(p) - 1) / fontheight(p) : 0 ;
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PM
+/* console.c doesn't do enough here */
+static int
+pm_fbcon_request(struct pm_dev *dev, pm_request_t rqst, void *data)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ switch (rqst)
+ {
+ case PM_RESUME:
+ acquire_console_sem();
+ fbcon_sleeping = 0;
+ if (use_timer_cursor) {
+ cursor_timer.expires = jiffies+HZ/50;
+ add_timer(&cursor_timer);
+ }
+ release_console_sem();
+ break;
+ case PM_SUSPEND:
+ acquire_console_sem();
+ save_flags(flags);
+ cli();
+ if (use_timer_cursor)
+ del_timer(&cursor_timer);
+ fbcon_sleeping = 1;
+ restore_flags(flags);
+ release_console_sem();
+ break;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PM */
/*
* The console `switch' structure for the frame buffer based console
-
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