Dynamically adding / removing outputs to / from an existing kms device?

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 30-06-16 13:53, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> While going through patchwork I stumbled over these:
>
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/38368/
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/38367/
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/38369/
>
> Which made me wonder if the number of outputs a card has changing
> is a thing and if we should add support for this to the modesetting
> driver ?
>
> I guess this can happen with displayport mst ?

Never mind, I just found:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/hw/xfree86/drivers/modesetting?id=9257b1252da9092ddc676fec9aabe2b33dfad272

Which adds dynamic output support to the modesetting driver
in a different way. I'll go and mark the above patches
as superseded in patchwork.

Regards,

Hans