On Mar 4, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Fre, 2011-03-04 at 17:19 +0100, Mario Kleiner wrote:
Maybe it would be even possible to slip the small kernel patch into 2.6.38-rc? It is rather a bugfix than a new feature.
Not really. The vblank ioctl never pretended to support more than 2 CRTCs, the bug is in the userspace code expecting that.
Ok, agreed, it's not really a kernel bug. Maybe i'm a bit too sneaky and pushy here, because i had some "fun" with a 4 display system two days ago.
But the change to the kernel is rather minimal and looks simple and safe to me. Anyway, the sooner this patch or a new ioctl goes in, the better.
best, -mario
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