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2008-04-28PM/gxfb: add hook to PM console layer that allows disabling of suspend VT switchAndres Salomon
Prior to suspend, we allocate and switch to a new VT; after suspend, we switch back to the original VT. This can be slow, and is completely unnecessary if the framebuffer we're using can restore video properly. This adds a hook that allows drivers to select whether or not to do this vt switch, and changes the gxfb driver to call this hook. It also adds a module param to gxfb to allow controlling of the vt switch (defaulting to no switch). (Note: I'm not convinced that console_sem is the best way to protect this, but we should probably have some form of locking..) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28gxfb: replace FBSIZE config option with a module parameterAndres Salomon
Use a command line option (vram) rather than hardcoding the vram size. LxFB already does this; it's useful for machines that can't query the BIOS for fb size. This patch originated from David Woodhouse, was modified by Jordan Crouse, and was then modified further by me. This also adds some gxfb documentation in Documentation/fb. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>