On Oct 29, 08 17:08:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > - Is RANDR_BANDWIDTH helpful? Or should we have a dedicated property for > > > > indicating dual link capability on DVI? What other meta information > > > > (also on other connections) would be useful? > > > I think it would be better to just indicate that this is a dual-link > > > connector. > > This gets slightly more obscene with DisplayPort, where you get a choice > > of 1, 2, or 4 lanes, at either of two lane rates. [...] > I agree that RANDR_BANDWIDTH is not that useful. There are a million > different bandwidth constraints in modern GPUs and communicating them to an > X client in such a way that the client can validate modes is just plain > impossible.
I finally think that the best thing to do for now is to skip this altogether for this revision. > > > > - Should RANDR_CONNECTOR_TYPE be made mandatory? > > > > If a driver *really* doesn't want to implement anything here, it could > > > > always set this to '0' and be done. > > > Yes, we should make several of these required. I'm wondering how well we > > > can do in automatically setting these from BIOS properties in the Intel > > > driver though. I agree that it might be difficult to "properly" implement those for all (especially older) chips. > > > I'd say that we should feel free to take over the unprefixed name space, > > > but that we should explicitly call out property names starting with '_' > > > as non-standard properties. Sounds reasonable. > While we're at it, is there any chance we could not have > ANNOYING_ALL_CAPS_NAMES_THAT_IMPLY_THAT_THE_SERVER_IS_YELLING_AT_YOU? I stuck to the original naming scheme (well, there was only one property in this list ;) - I'd be happy to use e.g. CamelCase names. Depending on what the majority likes to have. Updating specs for the next round... Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg