https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/splitting-drm-and-kms-device-nodes/

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Oct 28 18:38:09 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 10:18 +0000, Damian Ivanov wrote:

> Do I get this right? Except for the better management with multiple
> GPU's would that mean we can in future also have multiseat on a single
> multihead GPU logind style (also seen here
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66501 ) ?

If someone writes the code for it, sure.

> Does anyone if somebody works on a driver for displaylink 3XXX
> devices, I know from displaylink they are doing nothing, but if there
> is someone in the community working on something.

I don't know of anybody working on a driver for USB3 DisplayLink
devices, and I don't expect to see one any time soon.  IIRC the whole
command stream is encrypted on those for copy-protection reasons, so
short of cracking that...

- ajax



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