Re: [PATCH 1/3: FBDEV: VGA State Save/Restore module

Petr Vandrovec (vandrove@vc.cvut.cz)
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:41:57 +0100


On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:53:16AM +0500, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 03:33, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > On 5 Dec 02 at 6:05, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > planes 0 & 1.
>
> Okay, then. My approach was to be non-vgacon specific. I'll do it to
> specifically target vgacon then.
>
> To summarize:
> plane 0/1 save 8K at offset 0 and 8K at offset 16K;

I'm not sure about this one. AFAIK by default vgacon uses first 32KB
completely (every second byte...) from both 0/1, and can be configured
(by enabling VGA_CAN_DO_64KB) to use full 64KB.

> plane 2 save 32K at offset 0 (covers blocks 0-3),
> plane 3 same for plane 2
>
> Drivers can set VGA_SAVE_TEXT | VGA_SAVE_FONT0 to save planes 0-2. If
> there are no complaints, I'll proceed doing it this way.

I have no other problems.
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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