[PATCH] drm: remove immutable flag from suggested X/Y connector properties

[Michael Thayer]

03.01.2017 11:40, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> 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)?

The first time I wrote to them no one responded to my e-mail[1].  I 
could try again, asking just that question, though my plan at this time 
was just to submit a patch.  (For Daniel, I am looking at our source 
code again to see if I can get it in a merge-able state with a 
reasonable time investment.  Then there would be the "some driver to 
implement".)

[1] 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2016-December/msg00001.html

Regards
Michael

>
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>

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