On 12/11/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: > On 11 December 2014 at 20:58, Thomas Hellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'd like to have a standard / generic way of exposing virtual monitor >> layout to desktop managers. This would then serve as a *hint* to those >> managers to set the desktop up accordingly. >> >> Of course, this is mostly for virtual hardware, since without >> accelerometers, gyros and gps positioners on monitors, the kernel >> wouldn't be able to know where the user put his monitors. >> >> One could argue that this is purely user-space policy, but since those >> managers monitor the kms interface anyway it would be a convenient place >> to expose this information. >> >> One idea would to place the x,y location in an output property. >> >> Another idea would be to send new layout for all connected output as a >> drm event. >> > Have a look at drm-next, we added a suggested x/y property to connectors, > and qxl support for it. > > I think the spice guys added mutter support for it as well and qxl > X.org driver passes through the property. > > Dave. Dave, Did the hotplug_mode_update_property end up being used by user-space? In that case, should we move it to drm_device::mode_config? Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
