gpu screen infrastructure patches

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 09:50:26 PDT 2012


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 13 June 2012 16:14, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> Or thunderbolt.
>
> Or hybrid laptops with multiple GPUs that come and go with ACPI magic.

Well I probably won't be treating these as hotplug so much, since it
would mean tearing up/down the stack too much,

but usb/thunderbolt/hotpluggable PCIE slots/docking stations with GPU.

Dave.


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