From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [RFC] Does fbdev need a cursor API for userland?
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:06:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410181506.09713.adaplas@hotpop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339104101719462ea5b2dd@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 18 October 2004 10:46, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:20:39 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas
>
> <adaplas@hotpop.com> wrote:
> head in this environment has exposed some design problems in the
> fb_info structures. The structure doesn't sort out things that there
> are only one of vs multiple ones.
I don't think you can expect a single fb_info structure to represent more
than 1 display. If the card happens to support multihead, then the driver must
be able to register the driver more than once so it creates /dev/fb0,
/dev/fb1, etc, one for each head.
Tony
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-18 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-17 15:47 [RFC] Does fbdev need a cursor API for userland? Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-17 17:18 ` Zachary Smith
2004-10-17 21:51 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-17 22:25 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-17 23:49 ` Zachary Smith
2004-10-18 1:18 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-18 1:20 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-18 2:46 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-18 6:47 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-18 9:35 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-18 11:05 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-18 12:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-18 12:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-18 20:56 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-18 21:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-18 21:34 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-19 8:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-19 8:55 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-18 7:06 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
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