On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:59:07AM +0100, Martin Bugge (marbugge) wrote: > CEC is a protocol that provides high-level control functions between > various audiovisual products. > It is an optional supplement to the High-Definition Multimedia > Interface Specification (HDMI). > Physical layer is a one-wire bidirectional serial bus that uses the > industry-standard AV.link protocol. Apart from CEC being twice as fast as AV.link and using 3.6V instead of 5V, CEC does look like an extension to the frame format defined in EN 50157-2-2 for multiple data bytes. So, how about adding support for EN 50157-2-* messages as well? SCART isn't dead yet. EN 50157-2-1 is tricky in that it requires devices to override data bits like it is done for ack bits to announce their status. There is a single message type with 21 bits. For EN 50157-2-2 the only change necessary would be to tell the application that it has to use AV.link commands instead of CEC commands. In theory one could mix AV.link and CEC on a single wire as they can be distinguished by their start bits. EN 50157-2-3 allows 7 vendors to register their own applications with up to 100 data bits per message. I doubt we can support these if they require bits on the wire to be modified. As they still didn't make use of the reserved value to extend the application number space beyond 7, chances are no vendor ever applied for a number. Just my 2 cents. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
