[PATCH] xf86: allow for no outputs connected at startup operation.

[Dave Airlie]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2010 06:18:45 +1000, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I only do it for canGrow drivers, others keep the old behaviour, I
>> assume if you canGrow then you can do something interesting when a
>> display shows up later like resize the framebuffer within any
>> constraints.
>
> Ajax: I reviewed the patch and it does seem to only have the new
> behaviour for drivers which support fb resizing. Are you happy with the
> patch?
>
>> I've tested with radeon, I can try and do Intel/nouveau today, no
>> other drivers will be exposing canGrow.
>
> Let me know if you've managed to test this on intel and nouveau and I'll
> get it merged in.

Tested on Intel seemed to work okay, Ben if you get a chance can you
test on nouveau? I've pushed it into the F13 X server to make it easy.

You probably need the kernel patches to make sure it actually does
what it says but it would be nice to at least know it doesn't regress.

Dave.