On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:19:45AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > The main purpose of this patch set is supporting dynamic framebuffer > reconfiguration upon monitor hot-plug. The good thing is - it works. The > not so good thing is - only to the extent, that the current fbdev API > allows. Specifically, there is currently no possibility under the fbdev > API to inform framebuffer users about a changed framebuffer configuration, > as can easily be the case, when a new monitor has been plugged in. It is, > however, possible to inform in-kernel framebuffer users, e.g., the fbcon > console, about such a change, using framebuffer notifications. This patch > series implements support for monitor hot-plug on the hardware level, > i.e., the LCD and HDMI controllers get reconfigured for a new device. The > user configuration remains untouched. With this approach with a new > monitor plugged in, the user either gets to see the upper left corner of > the framebuffer image, or the whole framebuffer will be displayed in the > upper left corner of the display. > > The patch series also contains a number of improvements to both the lcdc > and hdmi SH-Mobile drivers. > > Based on the current (commit 410d878b) genesis-2.6/master tree. > Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
