From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: michael@ellerman.id.au
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 0/8] PS3 AV Settings Driver patches for 2.6.24
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:29:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FD5604.3060104@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190968833.15970.3.camel@concordia>
Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:23 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:33 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> Question: As several DVI-D displays advertise they support 1080i modes while
>> >> they actually don't (cfr. the quirk database), perhaps I should drop 1080i
>> >> modes completely from the ps3av_preferred_modes[] table? Usually 720p looks
>> >> better than 1080i anyway. What do you think?
>> >
>> > Definitely. If the autodetection fails Linux is basically unusable on
>> > PS3 unless you hack the kernel sources and build your own kboot and
>> > otheros.bld - not entirely trivial for novice users. So it's pretty
>> > important that it works 100%.
>>
>> It is not that bad. If a bootloader is configued to use autodetection
>> so that it is shown at best video mode, then it should have advertised
>> key sequences to default to known video modes, with at least a 480p 'safe'
>> mode.
>
> Oh OK, that is a good idea. What's the "safe mode" key sequence for the
> otheros.bld you provide on kernel.org?
I don't maintain that, and have no idea how it sets its video mode. Did you
have trouble with it? I know in the past it used a fixed 480p mode.
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 16:33 [patch 0/8] PS3 AV Settings Driver patches for 2.6.24 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 1/8] ps3av: eliminate unneeded temporary variables Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 2/8] ps3av: eliminate PS3AV_DEBUG Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 3/8] ps3av: use PS3 video mode ids in autodetect code Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 4/8] ps3av: treat DVI-D like HDMI in autodetect Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 5/8] ps3av: add autodetection for VESA modes Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 6/8] ps3av: add quirk database for broken monitors Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 7/8] ps3av: remove unused ps3av_set_mode() Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-26 16:33 ` [patch 8/8] ps3av: dont distinguish between `boot and `non-boot autodetection Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-27 2:31 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 0/8] PS3 AV Settings Driver patches for 2.6.24 Michael Ellerman
2007-09-27 11:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-28 8:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-09-27 17:23 ` Geoff Levand
2007-09-28 8:40 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-09-28 19:29 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2007-09-29 8:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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