On 22.02.2016 21:29, Dave Airlie wrote:
On 22 February 2016 at 22:20, Michael Thayer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 19.02.2016 16:16, Michael Thayer wrote:
I have been experimenting a bit with plugging and unplugging of graphics
devices (using a dummy KMS driver which is udl stripped of the actual
hardware poking) and how the X server copes with that. It seems to cope
well with a secondary device being removed, but not with the only
graphics device in the system disappearing (in that case the
hot-pluggable device is not deemed to be a GPU device, and therefore not
removable if I understood what is happening correctly).
[...]
Install driver, ask user to reboot.
Trying to remove the first screen from X is a long and insanity
inspiring process.
I've spent months hacking up something that lets us migrate stuff from screen A
to screen B, but it's really messy and the current X server code doesn't lend
itself to it at all, so I pretty much gave up the last time I tried.
Then perhaps having the place-holder first device in our kernel driver
is a solution worth considering. As the main person in charge of the
kernel DRM tree, is that something you could live with? I realise that
making life easier for external drivers is not something which is
normally done in the Linux kernel, but I think we have a valid reason
for wanting to update the driver without updating the kernel. We will
probably need to go that way with our out-of-tree drivers anyway to
support older kernel-and-X.Org combinations.
Or am I missing something here? In theory this could also be done
directly in the X server, and since you spent months working on this you
probably already thought about something on these lines.
Regards,
Michael
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