kernel modesetting progress report....

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/08, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
>  > On Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:33 am Dave Airlie wrote:
>  >  > the current API abstracts connectors from outputs, so in reality it
>  >  > is encoders with connector properties at the moment.
>  >  >
>  >  > you define a connector type and a connector id for each output and
>  >  > can gang them together..
>  >  >
>  >  > so wrt to the kernel API, output == encoder, output != connector. the
>  >  > kernel API also contains no names just enums.
>  >
>  >
>  > Maybe we should rename things internally to avoid confusion...
>  >
>  >
>  >  Jesse
>  >
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>  Is this new concept also the way it will be exposed to xorg and the user?
>
>  Or will there be a wrapper in the ddx doing the "translation"?
>

Up to the DDX writer, for randr 1.2 you'll need to do some thunking if
you have older names in config files etc..

Dave.