From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fbdev: Make BIOS EDID reading configurable Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:10:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20060223201030.d5a70121.akpm@osdl.org> References: <43FDA3C2.2010109@gmail.com> <20060223163438.63ce04e8.akpm@osdl.org> <43FE83DA.3050505@gmail.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FCUHs-0008Cq-PW for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:10:36 -0800 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.44) id 1FCUHs-0005hy-F6 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:10:36 -0800 In-Reply-To: <43FE83DA.3050505@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net "Antonino A. Daplas" wrote: > > > > > Also, is it not possible to defer this operation until we've parsed the > > command line, control it with a kernel boot parameter? > > > > I thought of that, but it seems a bit complicated to me to parse boot > options in assembly so I left this for another time. Well I'm wondering whether we can instead do this query later on, after we've entered start_kernel(). > The firmware EDID is only used as fallback, or if drivers have no DDC/I2C > support. Currently, all drivers that use the firmware EDID also have I2C > support in place. And chances are, if DDC transfers failed, the firmware > EDID will also be absent. hm. Don't you think `default y' would be better? As it is, people's stuff will mysteriously stop working. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642