Re: XFree86 5.0 TODO

> 
>>Anyway, for dual/multi-head on single graphic cards that support it, i
>>would like to have us separate more the part related to the graphic chip
>>from the part related to the output heads. Current multi-headed
>>solutions (on the same chip) use a chip sharing trick, and the pEnt to
>>store common information, but we could make this more formal, at least
>>at the device driver level, and have things like preinit and part of the
>>screeninit be done one time only for the entity, and then have multiple
>>calls to modeinit for setting the viewports, the zooming, the
>>outgoing resolution, the ddc info on the attached monitor and so on done
>>per head.
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> 
> multihead on a common framebuffer is obviously chip specific, so a lot
> of the details are specific to a driver. Again, for this, it should be
> doable now.

Alan - do you mean that there is some shared infrastructure there now for 
this, or that individual drivers can each extend what exists to get this going?

There was once talk about a multithreaded X server - is this envisaged for XF5?

What is the future of the work & extensions keithp was particularly involved with?

Keith