[Bug 66501] Feature request: support multiseat for a single multi-headed graphics card

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66501

--- Comment #7 from Francesco Frassinelli <fraph24 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Laércio de Sousa from comment #0)
> As long as more display managers gain support to logind's automatic
> multiseat feature, it would be nice if the couple "Wayland + multiseat
> capable display manager" also support multiseat for a single multi-headed
> graphics card.

First of all, thank you for your work on Xephyr.

I would really like to see this feature and maybe it could be possible to
crowdfund the development like Timothy Arceri did with KHR_debug support for
Mesa and GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays extension.

Some interesting references:

David Herrmann, for Linux Plumbers Conference (2013)
 - https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/splitting-drm-and-kms-device-nodes/

Laércio de Sousa on Xephyr limitations:
 -
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/x-org-drm/49351-single-gpu-multi-seat-support-with-x-org-under-xephyr?p=629742#post629742
 - http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2015-December/048282.html

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