EXT: Re: [PATCH weston v10 0/1] Head-based output configuration API a.k.a clone mode infrastructure

[Ray, Ian (GE Healthcare)]

> On 25 Jun 2018, at 15.00, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ping?
> 
> Would be really nice to get this final patch of a series of around 130+
> patches merged. It only needs an objective technical review, the
> Acked-by's already cover the subjective review.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> pq
> 
> On Wed,  6 Jun 2018 14:30:04 +0300
> Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> all of the clone mode infrastructure has landed. There is just this one
>> patch remaining that actually allows one to use it through weston.ini.
>> 
>> Mind, this may be hard to test, because most contemporary PC graphics
>> devices might not support shared-CRTC clone mode at all. So if you try
>> this and face a frozen or black screen, it's likely that your hardware
>> just doesn't support this. An indication of no support is an error in
>> Weston log saying "atomic: couldn't commit new state" or "set mode
>> failed". Unfortunately, Weston does not recover from modeset failures
>> yet, but you should be able to quit gracefully with the usual
>> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. You can still see in the Weston log how Weston tried
>> to configure clone mode.
>> 

Reviewed-by: Ian Ray <ian.ray at ge.com>


>> I have used an i.MX6 based system to test.
>> 
>> This is also available in a GitLab(!) branch here along with the other
>> patch (force-on output) depending on this one:
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/weston/commits/clonemode-v10
>> 
>> 
>> The old Phabricator task (obsolete):
>> https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T7727
>> The GitLab issue:
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/issues/22
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> pq
>> 
>> Pekka Paalanen (1):
>>  weston: support clone mode on DRM-frontend
>> 
>> compositor/main.c  | 492 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> man/weston-drm.man |  12 ++
>> 2 files changed, 484 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>> 
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