From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OLS and console rearchitecture
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:32:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091737928.8366.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4111F624.7080605@hist.no>
On Iau, 2004-08-05 at 09:56, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Isn't the "unique VGA" a disappearing problem?
Alas not.
> Please avoid unnecessary disabling of such devices, that only causes
> trouble for those of use trying to use several screens at once. (Possibly
> with several simultaneous _users_, who don't want their screen disabled
> for no
> good reason.) Of course one may have to buy the "right" cards when
> setting up
> such a machine.
The goal is to have a control device to arbitrate it. This doesn't
generally cause a performance hit and X currently handles it internally
using RAC but once you have multiple uses of VGA space the arbitration
has to go kernel side
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-05 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-02 14:24 OLS and console rearchitecture Jon Smirl
2004-08-02 14:54 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-08-02 16:07 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-08-02 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-02 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-03 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-02 16:16 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-05 11:08 ` Martin Waitz
2004-08-02 18:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-03 0:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-05 8:56 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-05 20:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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