Re: 5.9 points Re: 7.0 points 5.1 points Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 11:22:39AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> Why bother. Load the kms drm drivers. The suspend/resume code is in those
> drivers. They work console, X11 and wayland, more or less.  It's an
> absolutely
> insane idea to spend limited funds on the crazy ideas presented in this
> thread.
> They are known to be flakey, unreliable or technically just not possible.

The main problem is that modern VGA devices often only have just enough
VESA BIOS support to give Windows a generic framebuffer as fallback.
Otherwise, I don't think it is as flakey. All that said, spending funds
on it would certainly be misdirected.

Joerg