On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:00:25PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:37:46 +0200 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 10 July 2014 14:56:26 Boris BREZILLON wrote: [...] > > > BTW, is there any reason for not defining an RGB connector type (I'm > > > currently defining HLCDC connector as an LVDS connector) ? > > > > Not that I know of. The DRM API has been developed before display on embedded > > systems became such a hot topic. If we had to redo it today, panels might be > > exposed to userspace as such, with a connector. We have to live with the past, > > so the connector will stay, but adding a new RGB connector type could make > > sense (although we might need a different name, in a way the VGA and LVDS > > connectors also carry RGB signals). > > I had the same concern: I didn't find how this kind of connectors > was named (most of the time they're just referenced as RGB) :-). > What about RAW_RGB ? Are there even panels that take raw RGB as input? In all cases I've seen (which admittedly may not be all that many) there's always a transparent RGB/LVDS bridge, so the "connector" is in fact LVDS, not RGB, even if the display controller outputs RGB directly. Thierry
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