Re: worth submitting a detailed EDID structure?

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Sat Jan 03 2009 - 04:22:36 EST


On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Eric Anholt wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 09:08 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > just noticed the header file include/video/edid.h, which defines
> > video EDID info as simply:
> >
> > struct edid_info {
> > unsigned char dummy[128];
> > };
> >
> > a couple months back, i had to mess with EDID info and defined a
> > detailed structure to manipulate EDID fields. is it worth
> > submitting that as a patch and union'ing that with the above?
> > not a big deal for me either way.
>
> The KMS code already has detailed EDID structures in drm_edid.h, for
> what it's worth. We still need to get CEA extension bits ported
> over, though.

ah, i hadn't noticed that. eggcellent, thanks.

rday
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