Re: gpu screen infrastructure patches

2012-06-13 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: > Hi, > > This set of patches introduces infrastructure to support GPU > screens, hotplugging of platform devices and provision of the > randr provider objects. This code is mostly scaffolding, and > by itself doesn't provider any new feature, ex

Re: gpu screen infrastructure patches

2012-06-13 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 13 June 2012 16:14, Michal Suchanek wrote: I am not sure actually plugging cards is a good idea. PCIe is

Re: gpu screen infrastructure patches

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 13 June 2012 16:14, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> I am not sure actually plugging cards is a good idea. PCIe is >>> technically designed for hotplug but that does not mean a

Re: gpu screen infrastructure patches

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On 13 June 2012 16:14, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> I am not sure actually plugging cards is a good idea. PCIe is >> technically designed for hotplug but that does not mean all physical >> embodiments are actually hotpluggable, does it?

Re: gpu screen infrastructure patches

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On 13 June 2012 16:14, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I am not sure actually plugging cards is a good idea. PCIe is > technically designed for hotplug but that does not mean all physical > embodiments are actually hotpluggable, does it? Think USB. Cheers, Daniel __

Re: gpu screen infrastructure patches

2012-06-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, what should be hotpuggable with these? Are all GPUs hotpugged on start with the AutoAddGPU enabled? Or can I plug multiple cards, disable some in /sys and have them hotplugged by X when I re-enable them? I am not sure actually plugging cards is a good idea. PCIe is technically designed

gpu screen infrastructure patches

2012-06-13 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi, This set of patches introduces infrastructure to support GPU screens, hotplugging of platform devices and provision of the randr provider objects. This code is mostly scaffolding, and by itself doesn't provider any new feature, except exposing providers to the clients. The providers so far won