Re: fbcon non-desktop display use

2018-03-16 Thread Charles Lohr
To try to address both concerns, it feels easiest to do not in-line. 1) Just for background: The H3, and many other ARM systems use the framebuffer for all video access, 3D accelerated as well as X11. If we want to permit HMD (headmount display) or other non-desktop displays on these devices are

Re: fbcon non-desktop display use

2018-03-15 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Charles Lohr wrote: > To try to address both concerns, it feels easiest to do not in-line. > > 1) Just for background: The H3, and many other ARM systems use the > framebuffer for all video access, 3D accelerated as well as X11. If we > want to

Re: fbcon non-desktop display use

2018-03-15 Thread Keith Packard
Charles Lohr writes: > Even if the vive is the only device connected, it will still not permit it > to be operated. See https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/issues/291 > for dri with a lot of debugging turned on. Oh, it's not supposed to do that. I had intended to write

Re: fbcon non-desktop display use

2018-03-15 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Charles Lohr wrote: > There was a patch submitted by Keith Packard which prevents fbcon from using > non-desktop displays, but this breaks vive, and other HMD development/use on > embedded and other fbdev systems ( >

fbcon non-desktop display use

2018-03-15 Thread Charles Lohr
There was a patch submitted by Keith Packard which prevents fbcon from using non-desktop displays, but this breaks vive, and other HMD development/use on embedded and other fbdev systems ( https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10053989/ ). Even if the vive is the only device connected, it will still