Continuing my updating on latest intel linux graphics-related activity, some hours ago Jesse Barnes’ patches which add support for 3 display pipes to our Linux i915 driver have landed onto intel-gfx mailing list. This is one feature I am particularly very interested in, and it is great to have those patches available in the open-source world now – months before the IVB-based hardware will arrive at the consumer market.
Yes, as it was announced in several conferences, notes and even IDF, the Ivy Bridge graphics will bring out some impressive changes. Besides a greatly improved performance and new features, they also bring the support for 3 independent displays with them. So yes, it would be possible for one to have up to three independent video/audio streams being output to 3 different monitors at the same time (or having your display extended over 3 different monitors to bring you closer to the matrix reality 
).
As for the user interface to configure such display – pretty much everything stays the same. You just have more options in the xrandr tool (and its GUI frontends out there).
So if you’ve been waiting for watching 3 HDTV 1080p (or even twice-that-resolution) videos at the same time, on 3 different monitors, this time is approaching very fast.
