Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem

[Xavier Bestel]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:27 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > What about modifying the existing fbdev API? You could start with
> one
> > fbdev device per CRTC and then add a new IOCTL to control the output
> > device. I haven't seen anything yet that justifies abandoning the
> > existing fbdev API.
> 
> Then you can't aribtrate properly output hooking is a root level
> thing, you cannot allow the user in multiseat to just pick his own
> outputs, if you claim to want a truly flexible interfaces, also the
> crtc->output mappings aren't always simple, there are limitations on
> most hw about which crtc can map to which output and when you can
> clone etc.. putting policy for this stuff in-kernel would heavily
> restrict what the user can do...

Policy for this kind of thing should just go in HAL's ConsoleKit:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-January/007111.html

	Xav


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