From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Paulo Zanoni <przanoni@gmail.com>, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add intel_panel_fitter tool
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:37:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e39f63$3ipbsm@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328281766-15792-1-git-send-email-przanoni@gmail.com>
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:09:26 -0200, Paulo Zanoni <przanoni@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
>
> The tool allows you to change the panel fitter settings, so you can
> change the size of the screen being displayed on your monitor without
> changing the real pixel size of your desktop. The biggest use case for
> this tool is to work around overscan done by TVs and some monitors in
> interlaced mode.
I don't this should an installable tool for use by end-users. Direct
register access from userspace to registers that the driver owns? I'm
wary of installing even root-only tools that can screw us over in
unpredictable ways.
-Chris
--
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-03 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-03 15:09 [PATCH] Add intel_panel_fitter tool Paulo Zanoni
2012-02-03 16:37 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2012-02-03 16:44 ` Paulo Zanoni
2012-02-03 18:39 ` Ben Widawsky
2012-02-03 19:12 ` Chris Wilson
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