acpi_video vs. mach64

[Nate Lawson]

Anish Mistry wrote:
> On my laptop I use the VESA DPMS patch with acpi_video so I can suspend 
> correctly by shutting off the video adapter so there is less power drain, but 
> ever since the move to attach the acpi_video driver to the correct spot my 
> mach64.ko kernel module doesn't attach if the acpi_video is loaded since they 
> seem to want the same device.  Is there any chance of getting both to attach, 
> I think I remember a comment a while back about someone working on something 
> like this?  Or would it just be better if I want the drm module to load and 
> still have the adapter shutoff stuff to put that VESA code into the mach64 
> driver?

If both are attaching to the PCI video device, yes, that won't work. 
jhb@ has done a little preliminary work on a VGA framework.  However, I 
don't think much progress will be made right now as most developers are 
bugfixing for 5.3.  You can merge the code into mach64 if that works for 
you.  The 'right' thing is an actual driver framework that allows 
multiple drivers to attach to a common parent.

-- 
Nate