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[Eric Appleman <erappleman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/08/2011 03:57 AM, Stephen Brooks wrote:
> Morning,
>
>      Came across an interesting, currently experimental, project called
> vcrtcm that will "allow(s) a GPU driver to have an arbitrary number of
> CRTCs (configurable by user) instead of only those CRTCs that represent
> real hardware."
>
> RFC post
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-November/015975.html
>
> Project Overview/HOWTO
> https://github.com/ihadzic/vcrtcm-doc/blob/master/HOWTO.txt
>
> Definitely of interest but fair bit of time before this could be merged.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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Promising indeed. It would first serious solution for muxed/muxless AMD 
Bacon laptops. Until now, all I've considered was a cluster*** solution 
involving radeon/fglrx run through bumblebee-debug to create an X server 
to then windump applications.

- Eric