[Pm-utils] Video quirks without HAL or dbus

[Victor Lowther]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 03:55 -0600, Victor Lowther wrote:
>> This is a minimal prototype implementation of a tool that can be  
>> used to
>> query the quirk database when HAL and dbus are not running.  I will  
>> also
>> use it to test some ideas I ahve w.r.t how to best handle video  
>> driver
>> and kernel revisions in the video quirks without having to patch HAL.
>
> I really don't think you should be parsing XML in shell script... Keep
> pm-utils lean and simple. Also bear in mind that as drivers are being
> converted to KMS (kernel mode setting) we'll need to rip out loads of
> quirks long term anyway.

This script is not going to be part of pm-utils. It might be part of a  
seperate project at some point, and if that happens it will not try to  
parse XML.

Ripping out quirks is definitly the wrong way to work with kernel mode  
setting. It is better to add new --quirk-none quirks once we know and  
have tested kernel and driver combinations on hardware that currently  
requires quirks. I needed something easier to work with than hal rules  
to test things with, and this is the yestbed I came up with.

>
> Quirks are still very needed to get things to work right now, but I
> don't think we need such an infrastructure around something that  
> doesn't
> have a long term future on most video hardware.

Well, I think that is an overly optimistic view right now, but I will  
be happy to be proven wrong :)

>
> Richard.
>