On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 16:05 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:54:30 +1000 > Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:44 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > Make drm_edid_read take a new argument, edid_read, to allow drivers to > > > provide their own EDID fetch routine. Export the bit banging DDC over > > > i2c version of the EDID fetching routine and make the drivers use it. > > > This sets the stage for GMBUS support in the Intel driver. > > > > > > > I think this needs some rework. > > > > You might want to checkout what the radeon driver does for hw i2c > > engine. You should set up your own i2c hw handlers and use those instead > > of bypassing the i2c stack. GMBUS is just another i2c hw block. > > I'll check it out, but I don't see what using the i2c stack buys us > here except for obfuscation... > You'll want to use GMBUS for SDVO at some point in the future, or something else, or you'll want to expose it to userspace for DDC/CI users. Lots of reasons, its not obfuscation at all, what you are doing is dodgy shortcuts. Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
