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From: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: role of crtcs in modesetting interfaces and possible abstraction away from userspace
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 23:29:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540FEFE0.6080605@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bnqppadp.fsf@hiro.keithp.com>

On 09/08/2014 11:37 PM, Keith Packard wrote:
> With atomic mode setting in the kernel, I think you're probably right in
> proposing to eliminate explicit CRTC allocation from that. I do think
> you'll want to indicate the number of available CRTCs in the display
> engine, and the number of CRTCs each monitor consumes. Do you know if
> there are some of these monitors that can display lower resolution modes
> with only a single CRTC? Or is the hardware so separate that you end up
> always using multiple CRTCs to drive them?

The one I tried definitely can; indeed it has to because the VBIOS 
doesn't know how to set up MST and drives the port in DP 1.1 mode.  I'm 
sure someone will build a monitor that only turns on half of the display 
if you do that, but I'd be kind of surprised if someone made one that 
just doesn't work if you use a DP 1.1-only GPU.

-- 
Aaron

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-10  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09  0:43 role of crtcs in modesetting interfaces and possible abstraction away from userspace Dave Airlie
2014-09-09  6:37 ` Keith Packard
2014-09-10  6:29   ` Aaron Plattner [this message]
2014-09-09  7:58 ` Dave Airlie
2014-09-09  8:16 ` Ville Syrjälä
2014-09-09 23:22   ` Rob Clark
2014-09-10  8:20     ` Ville Syrjälä
2014-09-10 13:28       ` Rob Clark
2014-09-10 16:27   ` David Herrmann
2014-09-10 17:04 ` Alex Deucher

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