Re: EDID for radeonfb
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2003-08-22 07:34:10
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:21, Jon Smirl wrote:
The list of modes supported by the board has to get worked into this too. Who should do the diff'ing to determine valid modes? The list of legal monitor modes might be from EDID or the fbmode database. Should sysfs have one entry for legal board modes and one for legal monitor modes? Or should it just have a single entry for legal combos?
Good point. Looking at what things like MacOS do, I'd say fbmon provides a list to radeonfb, which filters it out and creates the "real" list. I think it's not time to do a full blown fbmon layer now, we need more experience with it and it's too late in the 2.6 process. I'll probably just keep fbmon as a pool of "utility" functions and do most from radeonfb (and aty128fb if I get a chance to port the i2c code) for now. One thing I'm hesitating to do is to dive into a driver split & rearchitecture now or not... Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0