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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:47:32 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] video: add support for getting video mode from device
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com> wrote:
> Grant Likely Wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> wrot=
e:
>> Also, since you're now in the realm of describing a video display,
>> which is separate from the display controller, you should consider
>> describing the display in a separate device tree node. =A0Maybe
>> something like this...
>>
>> video {
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0compatible =3D "fsl,mpc5121-diu";
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0display {
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0compatible =3D "<vendor>,<model>";
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0edid =3D [edid-data];
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0};
>> };
>>
>
>
> As it turns out, I'm doing exactly that - exporting verbatim EDID data as
> the value of the "edid" property - for the display node on the Via version
> of the OLPC machine. =A0The kernel driver uses it instead of trying to ob=
tain
> the EDID data from the monitor, because the builtin OLPC display cannot
> supply EDID data through the usual hardware interfaces.

Cool.  That sounds sane then.  How do you go about generating the EDID
data?  Is there a tool that can do that?  Or did you hand craft it?

Cheers,
g.