On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 07:48:26PM +1000, David Airlie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:18 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:48:39PM -0700, Manasi Navare wrote: > > > In case of tiled displays, if we hotplug just one connector, > > > fbcon currently just selects the preferred mode and if it is > > > tiled mode then that becomes a problem if rest of the tiles are > > > not present. > > > So in the fbdev driver on hotplug when we probe the client modeset, > > > we we dont find all the connectors for all tiles, then on a connector > > > with one tile, just fallback to the first available non tiled mode > > > to display over a single connector. > > > > > > Suggested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Suggested-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Hm, should we mayb have a slight timeout first to wait for the 2nd > > connector? Otherwise lots of flickering going on when plugging in one of > > these screens ... > > Not really, > > There are 3 scenarios with the multi-cable tiled monitors. and > non-resizeable fbdev. > > a) it's plugged in at boot. both cables are detected, fbdev gets a > full tiled mode. > b) it's not plugged in at boot, the user starts plugging it in, fbdev > was inited via the panel or another monitor. fbdev won't resize. > c) it's half plugged in at boot, then you get a non-tiled mode, and > fbdev can't resize to tiled anyways. > > Also plugging in one of these multi-cable monitors piecemeal is going > to take multiple seconds for the user to do physical cable plugging. Uh. I guess fbdev ftl, oh well. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
