On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 07:39 -0600, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Nov 4, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 03:55 -0600, Victor Lowther wrote: > >> This is a minimal prototype implementation of a tool that can be > >> used to > >> query the quirk database when HAL and dbus are not running. I will > >> also > >> use it to test some ideas I ahve w.r.t how to best handle video > >> driver > >> and kernel revisions in the video quirks without having to patch HAL. > > > > I really don't think you should be parsing XML in shell script... Keep > > pm-utils lean and simple. Also bear in mind that as drivers are being > > converted to KMS (kernel mode setting) we'll need to rip out loads of > > quirks long term anyway. > > This script is not going to be part of pm-utils. It might be part of a > seperate project at some point, and if that happens it will not try to > parse XML.
Right, I don't think it's a pm-utils "core" function. > Ripping out quirks is definitly the wrong way to work with kernel mode > setting. It is better to add new --quirk-none quirks once we know and > have tested kernel and driver combinations on hardware that currently > requires quirks. I needed something easier to work with than hal rules > to test things with, and this is the yestbed I came up with. If the video hardware is working correctly with KMS, then you don't need any quirks -- although I admit the number of drivers that do KMS 100% perfect I can count on the fingers of my third hand. > > Quirks are still very needed to get things to work right now, but I > > don't think we need such an infrastructure around something that > > doesn't > > have a long term future on most video hardware. > > Well, I think that is an overly optimistic view right now, but I will > be happy to be proven wrong :) Here's trying. :-) Richard. _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
