dri-devel Digest, Vol 12, Issue 16

[Mario Kleiner]

On Mar 4, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Fre, 2011-03-04 at 17:19 +0100, Mario Kleiner wrote:
>>
>> Maybe it would be even possible to slip the small kernel patch into
>> 2.6.38-rc? It is rather a bugfix than a new feature.
>
> Not really. The vblank ioctl never pretended to support more than 2
> CRTCs, the bug is in the userspace code expecting that.
>

Ok, agreed, it's not really a kernel bug. Maybe i'm a bit too sneaky  
and pushy here, because i had some "fun" with a 4 display system two  
days ago.

But the change to the kernel is rather minimal and looks simple and  
safe to me.
Anyway, the sooner this patch or a new ioctl goes in, the better.

best,
-mario

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