[PATCH 0/10] ps3av/fb drivers for 2.6.21

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > ps3av: Use a kernel thread to handle the actual video mode setting, as this
> > involves some quite big delays.
> 
> The ps3 fbdev already has it's own kernel thread no ? Why use a second
> one ? We could just have the ps3av code keep the delays but be called by
> a thread ?

That's another possibility.  And since the screen is blanked during mode
change, there's no need to refresh it, and I may even get rid of the call to
ps3fb_flip_ctl() in ps3av.

I'll look into it...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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