On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:42:04PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:

Am Montag, 18. Oktober 2004 22:21 schrieb Helge Hafting:

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On first access only, and even that only if the driver doesn't map the
pages at mmap() time already. ?Not a single fb driver seems to map the
pages lazy today, grepping in drivers/video for nopage handles shows
nothing. ?I'm not sure you can actually do that for iomem mappings.

Isn't it possible for the driver to unmap the mapping when
suspending? ?Then you're guaranteed to get that first access.

But what would you do then? Block everything that is using a terminal?

yes

but that wouldn't last long if you run the userspace helper as soon
as you are finished resuming.

One 'only' needs a method to give feedback while loading the image...
I guess we have to rely on the firmware here.
(Eighter it already sets an useable mode or provides a function that
can display test)

-- 
Martin Waitz