[PATCH 1/3] drm: add connector info/property for non-desktop displays

[Dave Airlie]

On 25 October 2017 at 21:15, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 25 October 2017 at 07:30, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This adds the infrastructure needed to quirk displays
>> using edid and to mark them as non-desktop to denote
>> that userspace shouldn't display a standard desktop on them.
>>
>> A non-desktop display is one which doesn't work like
>> a normal rectangular monitor or requires some transformation
>> of the output by the rendering process to make sense.
>
> I still think putting these behind a client cap is a good idea:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-October/155616.html

We want the X server to see these. How else can someone discover
there's a HMD plugged in?

So a client cap doesn't make any sense.

Dave.