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> As for fbcon knowing when it is asleep. Hum. We could have a flags to
> tell it to have text data updates to be placed in the shadow buffer
> (struct vc_datas->vc_screenbuffer) only;
Very simple to implement in the fbdev itself: just replace the drawing ops by
dummy drawing ops.
This can already be done now, by providing a dummy struct display_switch, and
in the future by providing dummy accels.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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