From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: EDID for radeonfb Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030821205110.89821.qmail@web14912.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1061498711.18043.10.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from web14912.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.248]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19pwOl-0007yF-00 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:51:11 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1061498711.18043.10.camel@gaston> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: kronos@kronoz.cjb.net, Linux Fbdev development list , James Simmons 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 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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