> Sender: [email protected]
> From: Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:12:19 -0700 (MST)
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [forum] How about running X on top of something else?
> -----
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > As for PCI access, our SNAP drivers do all their own PCI enumeration and
> > > XFree86 does it's own, and they coexist very peacefully.
>
> > And I take it both have the same inability to handle hot plug still ?
>
> Bah. We don't relocate resources unless we need to. So that ball's as
> much in your court as it is in ours.
>
> As to hot-plugging video adapters, very few of them, if any, can handle it
> anyway. And I don't see hot-plug as a high priority for the likes of ATI
> and nVidia.
>
Some of us already have this problem on handhelds. People want to
be able to plug in an additional screen and drive projectors.
I certainly believe your comment, however....
Hot plug of input devices is, however, a universal problem.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
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