Hi Lucas, Great to hear of your interest and experience - sounds good for this.
2010/3/26 Lucas Ferreira <lnf07 at c3sl.ufpr.br> wrote > Ther is one specific distribution to work on? Could be any. The idea is to get all the upstream pieces for fully plug-and-play USB multiseat in shape to include in any/many distros. In many ways it's close, but given how various key pieces are just coming together, working with current/latest kernel, xorg release, and gdm release is important. If you want to make the distro(s) part of the proposal to Google -- Gentoo can always work. Fedora 13 and Debian Squeeze looks like they have the right pieces. Ubuntu would need to be 10.10 or later -- 10.04 is missing some things AFAIK. > If not, What version of Xorg and Linux kernel will be used to it? For the kernel, use the udlfb module (DisplayLink USB framebuffer driver) in staging tree of 2.6.34+, possibly with updates from git.plugable.com. I'd be happy to help get any necessary patches back into the kernel process. For Xorg, version 1.8 should be good as a start (has the key udev and input support), running with the udlfb compatible driver (not in X distro yet; right now hosted at git.plugable.com). I'm sure you've already seen this, but here's a recent Google post on student applications http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/students-apply-now-for-google-summer-of.html I'd be happy to help provide feedback on any applications making use of udlfb, if anyone wants it before submitting to Google. Another separate but related proposal which Google might go for is taking the knowledge of how to program DisplayLink USB chips that's already in the kernel fbdev driver (udlfb) -- and convert that to kms/dri, along with the matching X server. It would get USB graphics more in sync with the changes happening in traditional PCIe graphics. Plugable can donate USB graphics or USB terminal hardware for any projects that get accepted by Google. Best wishes, Bernie Thompson Plugable Technologies http://plugable.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
