Update on DeviceKit

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:39:48PM +0100, ext Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:23:41PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > By the same token should we also care about voltage / power management
> > on the GPU etc? Of course, not, leave that to the _driver_. Which is X.
> 
> I should probably clarify something here. On a lot of hardware, the 
> backlight is *not* related to the graphics hardware in any reasonable 
> way. It's possible to make X handle this, but at that point X is just 
> your abstraction layer.

It's an abstraction layer that already deals with multiple devices and
displays both in a sensible way, so HAL would have to strictly follow
RandR 1.2 (and only people with DRM modesetting would get that useful
mapping) in order to be even remotely useful for configuration.

Cheers,
Daniel
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