Re: 2.6.3-rc3 radeonfb: Problems with new (and old) driver

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> Do we want to pay the cost (in time) of a full mode set + engine reset
> on each unblank ? I could limit myself to restoring the accel engine,
> that faster, but with X also not always restoring the console mode
> properly, I'd have preferred re-setting the whole mode... 

Well, on blanking, we do actually already pass in a parameter that says
"this is not a full blank, it's just a move to graphics mode". It would
make 100% sense to add the _same_ parameter to the unblank code.

That would just make the code more logical, and it should fix your 
concerns, no?

		Linus
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