> Could we make the "master" board expose the serial port as a slot that a "slave" > board is connected to, which exposes another slot for the next "slave" board and so > on and default to having two daisy-chained slaves for the left and right monitors? > That would leave the default behaviour alone but allow people to make arbitrarily > complex configurations.
Absolutely. But like I said, at this point they'll only be able to do so with the command line or QMC2, because QMC2 is the only FE that supports arbitrary slotting.