On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:58:05PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi, folks. I remember chatting with some Intel devs around six to seven > months ago about dynamic framebuffer allocation: i.e., supporting > multiple heads without people needing to stick a Virtual line in > xorg.conf or have their distributor set a wastefully large default > framebuffer size. I recall the plan was to be working on this some time > around...well...now, actually :) > > So I just wondered if there was an update on the status of this. Will it > be coming along soon? It would be nice to have it in Mandriva 2009.1 > (April 2009).
If I'm not mistaken, it's called GEM nowadays, and it's queued for 2.6.28, according to a recent post by Jesse Barnes: http://virtuousgeek.org/blog/index.php/jbarnes/2008/10/13/and_more_travel Marius Gedminas -- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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