[Pm-utils] Video quirks without HAL or dbus

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 07:39 -0600, Victor Lowther wrote:
> 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.

Right, I don't think it's a pm-utils "core" function.

> 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.

If the video hardware is working correctly with KMS, then you don't need
any quirks -- although I admit the number of drivers that do KMS 100%
perfect I can count on the fingers of my third hand.

> > 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 :)

Here's trying. :-)

Richard.