Hi Daniel, > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Mittwoch, 15. März 2017 10:45 > To: Ucan, Emre (ADITG/SW1) > Cc: [email protected]; Armin Krezović > Subject: Re: [PATCH weston 0/2] Introduce substitute of connector option > > Hey, > > On 8 March 2017 at 15:43, Ucan, Emre (ADITG/SW1) <[email protected] > jv.com> wrote: > > Remove the option, because it is hard to use. > > Drm connector ids are hard to reach for users, > > and they can change when kernel or device tree > > is modified. > > > > If someone wants to enable just one output and > > disable all others, he can set "require-output-config". > > Then, all unconfigured outputs will be disabled > > automatically. > > > > In current implementation, there is no configuration > > to disable unconfigured outputs. > > > > One can create an output section for a known output > > in weston.ini file and set its mode to "off" to disable > > a known output. But there is no configuration to disable > > unknown outputs. > > > > This might be usefull for example, if someone wants to > > enable just one output and disable all others. Without > > this option, we have to right down an output section for > > every output known to system and disable all outputs, > > which we do not want to enable. > > This looks quite good, and is better than what I would've come up > with. Armin - could you please take a look from the config point of > view? 1/2 is Acked-by me, 2/2 is Reviewed-by me, and if you can > provide review/ack on 1/2, then I'll take care of landing them and any > collisions with changes to the DRM backend. > > > It might be usefull also for startup time optimization, > > because some display types (e.g. LVDS and VGA) are always > > up. Therefore, weston would modeset every one of them. > > Even there are no attached displays. > > Hm, VGA does have load-detect and HPD possible. Anyway, if these > displays are active, wouldn't this give us a dead area which couldn't > be used? Though I guess with IVI shell you wouldn't really notice as > the surfaces would be explicitly placed on to particular outputs.
Therefore, we need this configuration option to disable their outputs, so that there will be no dead area. > > Cheers, > Daniel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
