From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267945AbUHEVfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:35:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267875AbUHEVe4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:34:56 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:7615 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267983AbUHEVen (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:34:43 -0400 Subject: Re: OLS and console rearchitecture From: Alan Cox To: Helge Hafting Cc: Jon Smirl , lkml In-Reply-To: <4111F624.7080605@hist.no> References: <20040802142416.37019.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com> <4111F624.7080605@hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1091737928.8366.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:32:09 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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