From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:26:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: add a function to parse further EDID Detailed Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:56, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Erik Gilling 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds