From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [RFC] Does fbdev need a cursor API for userland? Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:06:09 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200410181506.09713.adaplas@hotpop.com> References: <200410172347.15516.adaplas@hotpop.com> <200410180920.39170.adaplas@hotpop.com> <9e47339104101719462ea5b2dd@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CJRV8-0006ft-4i for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:00:14 -0700 Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com ([38.113.3.61]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CJRV5-0001MR-DM for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:00:14 -0700 Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103]) by smtp-out.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C30790C60D for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:00:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <9e47339104101719462ea5b2dd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jon Smirl Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Monday 18 October 2004 10:46, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:20:39 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl