[PATCH] drm: remove immutable flag from suggested X/Y connector properties
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Jan 3 10:40:50 UTC 2017
Hi,
> > Makes sense I think, but for merging we need:
> > - some driver to implement
>
> This is where it starts getting tricky. vboxvideo is out of tree. In
> theory I could look at getting it merged, but that needs time I am
> rather short of (I am the only person maintaining that driver and it is
> just one of my responsibilities; and there are some bits there that are
> probably too ugly to merge as is). I don't think I am really the person
> to be doing this for qxl/virtio-gpu as that required adding the support
> to qemu too.
Not only kernel driver and qemu. Right now neither qxl nor virtio-gpu
can communicate the actual layout back to the host. So this also
requires changes to the guest/host protocol (i.e. the virtual hardware).
> > - some userspace to take advantage of it
>
> As I wrote, mutter would be the first candidate.
Do you have any feedback from mutter developers on the two approaches
(touchscreen-style autoconfig or x+y offsets)?
cheers,
Gerd
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