Re: [PATCH] fbdev: add a function to parse further EDID Detailed

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:56, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Erik Gilling <konkers@google.com> wrote:
>> Guennadi,
>>    Not sure how you're using the edid but you can get all 4 DTDs by
>> calling fb_edid_to_monspecs() then calling fb_videomode_to_var() on
>> each of the entries in monspecs.modedb.  This is still lacking as
>> modern monitors/tvs can have multiple EDID blocks.  My recent patch
>> [1] is a proposal for addressing that.
>
> If someone is really interested in fixing up the fbdev EDID parser
> they probably should look at sharing the drm EDID parser, its a lot
> more complete and came mostly from the EDID parser in the X server.

Funny, where do you think the fbdev EDID parser came from?

So I can only conclude that instead of updating/improving the fbdev one,
a new one was duplicated/created, the DRM one? ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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