[Xorg] The big multiconsole nasty

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2004-06-29 at 20:14, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I have code that could be added to DRM that:
> 1) ioctl to make sure all VGA devices are disabled and remember the one
> that was. It uses kernel calls to achieve this.
> 2) after disabling VGA devices run the user space reset program which
> will enable VGA on the card being reset
> 3) ioctl the driver again to disable all VGAs and restore the original
> one.

Not sure it belongs in DRI but clearly it belongs somewhere. I'm looking
forward to seeing all this at the kernel/desktop summit

> I think it would be better to just get the whole reset issue out of
> xfree and into a separate hotplug app. fbdev needs reset support too.

As does ACPI resume. It certainly seems to make sense to do the BIOS
boot of all present VGA cards (or some kind of 'safe list' of ids)
at boot up.