On 7/13/23 10:53, Jocelyn Falempe wrote: > On 13/07/2023 10:32, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> On 7/12/23 17:25, Jocelyn Falempe wrote: >>> On 12/07/2023 17:05, Sui Jingfeng wrote: >>>> On 2023/7/10 16:07, Jocelyn Falempe wrote: >>>> >>>>> On the other hand, are there any drawback to present a BMC connector even >>>>> when the hardware doesn't have it ? >>>> >>>> If not properly setting up, I think you will create two encoder and two >>>> connector in the system. >>> >>> Yes, but I think it won't have any visible effect for the end-user. >> >> I'm afraid user-space display servers would waste effort producing content >> for a non-existing BMC (assuming its connector status is connected or >> unknown). >> >> > I think it's already the case, as AST's DP and VGA connectors currently > always report "connected" status. And they all share the same crtc, so there > is only one framebuffer, that is always active.
"Single CRTC" is the piece of information I was missing. Never mind then. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | https://redhat.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and Xwayland developer
