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Dave Airlie 078277e4d9 xf86: autobind GPUs to the screen
This is a modified version of a patch we've been carry-ing in Fedora and
RHEL for years now. This patch automatically adds secondary GPUs to the
master as output sink / offload source making e.g. the use of
slave-outputs just work, with requiring the user to manually run
"xrandr --setprovideroutputsource" before he can hookup an external
monitor to his hybrid graphics laptop.

There is one problem with this patch, which is why it was not upstreamed
before. What to do when a secondary GPU gets detected really is a policy
decission (e.g. one may want to autobind PCI GPUs but not USB ones) and
as such should be under control of the Desktop Environment.

Unconditionally adding autobinding support to the xserver will result
in races between the DE dealing with the hotplug of a secondary GPU
and the server itself dealing with it.

However we've waited for years for any Desktop Environments to actually
start doing some sort of autoconfiguration of secondary GPUs and there
is still not a single DE dealing with this, so I believe that it is
time to upstream this now.

To avoid potential future problems if any DEs get support for doing
secondary GPU configuration themselves, the new autobind functionality
is made optional. Since no DEs currently support doing this themselves it
is enabled by default. When DEs grow support for doing this themselves
they can disable the servers autobinding through the servers cmdline or a
xorg.conf snippet.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
[hdegoede@redhat.com: Make configurable, fix with nvidia, submit upstream]
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
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Changes in v2:
-Make the default enabled instead of installing a xorg.conf
 snippet which enables it unconditionally

Changes in v3:
-Handle GPUScreen autoconfig in randr/rrprovider.c, looking at
 rrScrPriv->provider, rather then in hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c
 looking at xf86CrtcConfig->provider. This fixes the autoconfig not
 working with the nvidia binary driver
2019-08-07 12:26:59 +02:00
.gitlab-ci gitlab-ci: Build and install a current version of rendercheck. 2019-03-28 13:55:22 -07:00
composite assert(a && b) --> assert(a); assert(b) 2019-05-02 15:02:36 -07:00
config linux: Fix platform device PCI detection for complex bus topologies 2019-06-20 14:18:07 +00:00
damageext Use ARRAY_SIZE all over the tree 2017-10-30 13:45:20 -04:00
dbe meson: Distribute more SDK headers 2018-04-02 13:42:08 -04:00
dix assert(a && b) --> assert(a); assert(b) 2019-05-02 15:02:36 -07:00
doc hw/xwin: Add an option to use alpha channel in multiwindow mode 2019-06-17 21:56:35 +00:00
dri3 dri3: Fix XACE access mode for open and get_supported_modifiers 2019-01-16 20:05:43 +00:00
exa assert(a && b) --> assert(a); assert(b) 2019-05-02 15:02:36 -07:00
fb fboverlay: move bpp checks above malloc 2018-09-12 12:26:48 +10:00
glamor glamor: Make pixmap exportable from gbm_bo_from_pixmap() 2019-05-29 17:18:32 +00:00
glx GLX: Set GlxServerExports::{major,minor}Version 2019-05-21 10:50:42 -07:00
hw xf86: autobind GPUs to the screen 2019-08-07 12:26:59 +02:00
include os: Ensure sigset_t is provided when compiling for MinGW 2019-05-18 14:59:38 +00:00
m4 Add ax_pthread.m4 to m4/ 2016-05-29 19:20:51 -07:00
man os: add support for systemd notification 2019-05-07 09:01:47 +03:00
mi mi: Use GC clipregion instead of drawable in miDoCopy/miCopyArea 2019-08-06 18:01:37 +00:00
miext meson: Build rootless extension 2019-05-02 15:42:58 +00:00
os Clarify authorization failure reason strings sent back to the client 2019-07-23 19:50:25 +00:00
present Revert "present/scmd: Check that the flip and screen pixmap pitches match" 2019-07-03 11:53:56 +02:00
pseudoramiX Unvalidated lengths 2017-10-10 23:33:34 +02:00
randr xf86: autobind GPUs to the screen 2019-08-07 12:26:59 +02:00
record assert(a && b) --> assert(a); assert(b) 2019-05-02 15:02:36 -07:00
render animcur: Fix crash when removing a master device 2018-04-24 14:28:27 -04:00
test xfree86: Link fb statically 2019-07-23 14:24:00 -04:00
Xext xsync: Add resource inside of SyncCreate, export SyncCreate 2019-04-17 14:01:17 -07:00
xfixes xfixes: Restore monitoring of animated cursors 2018-02-14 13:52:45 -05:00
Xi Xi: return AlreadyGrabbed for key grabs > 255 2019-06-12 16:58:53 +00:00
xkb Fix crash on XkbSetMap 2019-07-01 02:33:26 +02:00
.appveyor.yml appveyor: Drop building Xorg server 2019-07-21 14:44:34 +01:00
.dir-locals.el Add .dir-locals.el 2013-08-17 12:17:36 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: Add new autotools file 'test-driver' 2014-04-21 13:41:42 -07:00
.gitlab-ci.yml gitlab-ci: Retry jobs after runner system failures 2019-04-01 16:38:04 +02:00
.travis.yml travis: Add OSX meson build to matrix 2019-05-02 15:42:58 +00:00
autogen.sh autogen: Set a default subject prefix for patches 2016-02-08 17:41:38 -05:00
buildDateTime.h.in Promote file containing date & time build was configured to top-level 2019-05-02 15:42:58 +00:00
buildDateTime.sh Promote file containing date & time build was configured to top-level 2019-05-02 15:42:58 +00:00
configure.ac present: Require presentproto 1.2 2019-06-20 12:15:31 -04:00
COPYING modesetting: Merge modesetting's COPYING into the xserver's. 2014-09-15 12:46:02 -07:00
devbook.am doc: Create a script to filter xmlto output 2015-01-05 14:24:06 -08:00
docbook.am docbook.am: embed css styles inside the HTML HEAD element 2011-09-21 14:07:49 -07:00
Makefile.am Promote file containing date & time build was configured to top-level 2019-05-02 15:42:58 +00:00
manpages.am man: Fix automake seddery 2018-05-08 12:15:30 -04:00
meson_options.txt meson: Convert xquartz from autotools 2019-05-02 15:42:58 +00:00
meson.build meson: Convert xquartz from autotools 2019-05-02 15:42:58 +00:00
README.md Update README for gitlab migration 2018-11-25 20:55:11 +00:00
xorg-server.m4 xorg-server.m4: just all cflags instead of just sdkdir 2018-09-20 20:12:24 +01:00
xorg-server.pc.in xfree86: link modules against Xorg symbols on Cygwin 2012-04-05 21:57:07 -05:00
xserver.ent.in doc: relocate xserver.ent in the package root directory 2011-05-14 11:22:26 -07:00

X Server

The X server accepts requests from client applications to create windows, which are (normally rectangular) "virtual screens" that the client program can draw into.

Windows are then composed on the actual screen by the X server (or by a separate composite manager) as directed by the window manager, which usually communicates with the user via graphical controls such as buttons and draggable titlebars and borders.

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