On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:56, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Erik Gilling <konkers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Guennadi,
>> Â ÂNot sure how you're using the edid but you can get all 4 DTDs by
>> calling fb_edid_to_monspecs() then calling fb_videomode_to_var() on
>> each of the entries in monspecs.modedb. ÂThis is still lacking as
>> modern monitors/tvs can have multiple EDID blocks. ÂMy recent patch
>> [1] is a proposal for addressing that.
>
> If someone is really interested in fixing up the fbdev EDID parser
> they probably should look at sharing the drm EDID parser, its a lot
> more complete and came mostly from the EDID parser in the X server.
Funny, where do you think the fbdev EDID parser came from?
So I can only conclude that instead of updating/improving the fbdev one,
a new one was duplicated/created, the DRM one? ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
            Geert
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