Sharing a KMS device

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Tue Sep 18 19:49:20 UTC 2018


Troll Berserker <berserker.troll at yandex.com> writes:

> Is it theoretically possible to implement a driver (let's call it
> shared-modesetting) which will offload mode setting to a helper daemon
> (drmMaster) thus allowing to run multiple Xorg servers on one DRM
> device? (provided that there are enough CRTCs (?) available).

We've recently add a new technique in DRM called 'leasing', which allows
you to create a new DRM controller for a subset of the available resources.

-- 
-keith
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