newcons comming

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:09:45AM +0200, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:37:25 -0400
> Sean Bruno <sean_bruno at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 22:32 +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:45:32 +0200
> > > dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Suppose that Newcons gets in quickly. I use a Radeon 9600 card. Will
> > > > I see something useful on my screen (with KMS and the new Xorg and
> > > > things like that), or will my screen be black?
> > > 
> > > Yup, you will get normal virtual terminal, but a bit bigger than
> > > 640x480. It is main reason why x11 team ask me to merge newcons ASAP.
> > > Newcons can use framebuffer provided by DRM.
> > > 
> > > Try it yourself.
> > > 
> > > WBW
> > 
> > 
> > So, I'm running NEW Xorg now and KMS with an NVidia card.  What should I
> > do to test this?  What are the expected results?
> > 
> > sean
> 
> Spend several hours to try to bring nvidia unit in my laptop. But it is
> "Optimus". It looks like working, but both output show same picture :)))
> And this is right-side of desktop (if you run xorg) :)
> So I can't answer your question yet.
> Think we have to ask nvidia to share some info on how to call their KMS
> inside kernel (not via /dev/card/dri node).

Nvidia binary driver does not support KMS.

Optimus is really not a full video adapter.  Optimus chips (usually) do not
have video outputs attached at all, GPU does only rendering into the
aperture of the Intel GPU.
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