From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:35:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] Generic panel framework Message-Id: <3539590.nD15u1ceQC@avalon> List-Id: References: <1345164583-18924-1-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Zhou Zhu Cc: Jun Nie , Tomi Valkeinen , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Bryan Wu , Richard Purdie , Marcus Lorentzon , Sumit Semwal , Archit Taneja , Sebastien Guiriec , Inki Dae , Kyungmin Park Hi Zhou, On Tuesday 04 September 2012 16:20:38 Zhou Zhu wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > Basically I agree that we need a common panel framework. I just have > some questions: > 1. I think we should add color format in videomode - if we use such > common video mode structure shared across subsystems. > In HDMI, colors are bind with timings tightly. We need a combined > videomode with timing and color format together. What kind of color formats do you have in mind ? > 2. I think we should add "set_videomode" interface. It helps HDMI > monitors to set EDIDs. For panels that support several video modes, sure, we need a way to set the video mode. I don't have access to any such panel though, that's why the operation has been left out. It wouldn't be difficult to add it when a real use case will come up. What do you mean exactly about HDMI monitors setting EDID ? -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart