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    tools: Add intel-virtual-output to extend the local desktop with remote outputs · 8067255d
    Chris Wilson authored
    
    
    Based on the original implementation (hybrid-screenclone) by
    Tomáš Janoušek, and Bumblebee integration by Kevin Puetz.
    
    intel-virtual-output utilizes local VirtualHeads to present a contiguous
    desktop to the local display manager, but maps the drawing on those
    outputs to the remote display, and provides bidirectional RandR proxy so
    that you can resize the remote display and configure it within your
    desktop. The remote display should also send hotplug events back to the
    local desktop, for reconfiguration on the fly.
    
    Ideally the remote display is a discrete GPU on the same host so that we
    can use local Shared Memory transport and avoid sending data over the
    wire (though it will work in that setup). Ideally you would have userptr
    support to provide zero-copy rendering between the GPUs, or have dma-buf
    (in which case you would be using PRIME). For remote rendering, no
    compression is done so this fares worse than VNC.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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