On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Timur Tabi [off-list ref] wrote:

Grant Likely wrote:

quoted

No. =A0It is a static property of the board/machine. =A0It is expected i=

t

quoted

to be encoded into the board's .dts file.

Ok, but that only makes sense if the monitor is hard-wired to the board i=

tself.

=A0If a user can attach any monitor he wants, then the EDID data can't be=

 known at

compile time.

I guess it's no different than using hard-coded memory controller program=

ming

instead of SPD. =A0You can safely avoid SPD only if the DDR chips are sol=

dered on

the board.

Correct, if a real EDID i2c channel exists, then an edid property
should *not* be specified in the device tree.

g.