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Allow reverse PRIME with an explicit configuration

Merged Zoltán Böszörményi requested to merge zboszor/xserver:fix-gpu-screen-assignment into master

Some (POS or other embedded) deployments require separate X screens for fullscreen applications. This requires using an Xorg configuration file.

One such use case adds an extra USB DisplayLink device which is a dumb framebuffer. To reduce CPU usage for drawing, 3D backing is needed which can be provided by (reverse) PRIME.

Currently there are a few problems:

  1. RandR providers are always assigned to screen 0 instead of the ones they were assigned to in the configuration
  2. glamoregl refuses to be initialized on the llvmpipe driver which would be used for a framebuffer-only device.

This MR lifts these limitations and allows (reverse) PRIME to be set up using a configuration file.

videocard-modesetting-for-both-intel-and-udl.conf

Edited by Zoltán Böszörményi