Re: EDID for radeonfb

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>]

Is GregKH designing the EDID thorough sysfs scheme? I haven't seen a proposal
on how it is going to work. We need to coordinate with that so that we don't
end up with a different EDID scheme for every card.

--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 22:39, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > The EDID code will allow the driver to ignore the BIOS copy in low RAM and
> use
> > the ROM instead. Ben, could you make sure that the code to enable/access
> the
> > ROM works on your Macs since I don't own one? Did you finish merging what
> was
> > left of the Rage/Radeon PCI IDs from my patch?
> 
> The "Mac" cards don't have an x86 BIOS in ROM, they have an Open
> Firmware instead, we need to fix proper detection of that, but that's
> something I can try to do. I didn't finish merging it yet, I've been
> quite busy with other drivers this week, radeonfb is on my todolist
> for this week-end.
> 
> > EDID plus ROM will solve both problems: multiple adpaters and Mac portables
> > needing EDID.
> 
> Yup (Note: the need for EDID in low RAM happened with x86 configs, on Macs,
> I get it via the Open Firmware device tree).
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 


=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com

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