Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: legacy VGA device requirements (was: Exposing ROM's though sysfs) | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:11:29 -0700 |
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On Friday, August 13, 2004 8:53 am, Jon Smirl wrote: > What should the API for this look like? We could add a VGA={0/1} > attribute to all the VGA devices in sysfs. > > But then how do you: > 1) list all of the conflicting VGA devices in a domain? > 2) turn off all the VGA devices in a domain? > > We could build a bus like directory structure in /sys/class > > /sys/class/vga/domain1/vga1/(device/driver/enable) > /sys/class/vga/domain1/vga2/(device/driver/enable) > /sys/class/vga/domain2/vga1/(device/driver/enable) > /sys/class/vga/domain2/vga2/(device/driver/enable) > > Then add an enable attribute in the domain directories that would shut > off all of the subdevices. > > /sys/class/vga/domain1/enable > /sys/class/vga/domain2/enable > > But the vga driver is not going to be attached to a device. Is there an > easy way to build this is sysfs?
Maybe we need a display driver class? Could we reuse the dri drivers for that purpose?
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