On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thinking about modern hw, I'd probably only expose connectors and > monitors (or maybe call them displays). You could hang backlight > controls and brightness, etc on the monitor objects. Also you could > have a multiple monitors connected to a single connector (DP 1.2 or > virtual adapters (wireless or remote display for example)). > Everything else (crtcs, plls, encoders, etc.) would be driver > controlled and validated.
Yeah, that's pretty much my idea, too. For backwards-compat we could expose a fake encoder for each connector, but essentially ignore it in the generic modeset code. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
