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Message-Id: <200804090817.02836.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:17:02 -0700
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To: "Jakob Bornecrantz" <wallbraker@...il.com>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DRM modesetting & sysfs
On Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:57 am Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> I was going to suggest that you plug it into the hotplug_stage_two
> function but it looks like you have already done that. Things might be
> routed differently now then since the last time I looked at the code,
> are you sure that stage_two is being run?
I'll have to check, I'm not sure I'm even getting interrupts...
> > Any thoughts on the interface? Anything in particular people would like
> > to see?
>
> Looks good, can you write to dpms, that is turn a monitor on and of,
> that would be slightly cool but not overly useful. On the whole I
> think exporting properties are fine, but I don't think setting modes
> and crtc's are to be done in sysfs. However it is entirely possible.
Agreed. I view this more as a way of exporting information about the DRM
configuration to userspace rather than a way to control the whole thing. I
think we should stick with ioctls for the latter... Anyway thanks for
checking it out.
Jesse
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