[PATCH 2/6] Add port information to HDMI profiles

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On 03/08/2012 11:17 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 07:17 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> [...]
>> +[Mapping hdmi-surround]
>> +description = Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI)
>> +device-strings = hdmi:%f
>> +paths-output = hdmi-output-0
>> +channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
>> +priority = 3
>> +direction = output
>
> Should we also be adding a 7.1 profile? As I understand HDMI support 7.1
> LPCM. Of course, ideally, we should get the number of speaker in ELD
> information and configure the profiles accordingly, but that's for
> another day.

This is just a question of what's common, vs the minor extra time and 
space taken at startup (especially for all those cards that don't have 
HDMI at all).

I don't have a really strong opinion either way as I don't know how 
common it is that people want to use 7.1 LPCM HDMI.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic


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