virtgpu: ordering of fbdev vs display info retrieval

[Dave Airlie]

On 16 June 2015 at 17:20, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Di, 2015-06-16 at 14:57 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> Hi Gerd,
>>
>> just looking at the display info vs fbdev init, why are they not the
>> other way around, it makes no sense to me to init fbdev and then
>> hotplug it with the display info response, surely setting it up on the
>> current displays is what we want.
>
> fbdev doesn't (and can't by ioctl interface design) response to hotplug,
> so the framebuffer console will not adapt to window resizes anyway.  So
> I through just going with 1024x768 for the framebuffer console (like all
> other qemu kms drivers) is fine.

But fbcon does react to console resizes, we hotplug them with kms drivers,

However it is limited to the a maximum of the first size allocated, so
if we know in advance we need a larger display then things can resize
down below that.


> We can change it it you prefer, we'll need to wait for the display_info
> response then and move fbdev init down a few lines.

Yes that would be fine,

Dave.