On 26 October 2017 at 05:24, Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 October 2017 at 21:15, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 25 October 2017 at 07:30, Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This adds the infrastructure needed to quirk displays
>>> using edid and to mark them as non-desktop to denote
>>> that userspace shouldn't display a standard desktop on them.
>>>
>>> A non-desktop display is one which doesn't work like
>>> a normal rectangular monitor or requires some transformation
>>> of the output by the rendering process to make sense.
>>
>> I still think putting these behind a client cap is a good idea:
>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-October/155616.html
>
> We want the X server to see these. How else can someone discover
> there's a HMD plugged in?
>
> So a client cap doesn't make any sense.

Userspace also doesn't help with getting the console off these and not
having them upset your other fbcon monitor, if someone
invents a userspace database and gets it into X.org/mutter/<list of
wayland compositors>
then I'm happy to use it.

Dave.
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