Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752355AbXBHR5G (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:57:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752369AbXBHR5F (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:57:05 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53936 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752355AbXBHR5C (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:57:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:56:57 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Airlie , Giuseppe Bilotta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info In-Reply-To: <20070207234837.GA27822@dreamland.darkstar.lan> Message-ID: References: <21d7e9970701281612q56b694edp6efd1a5556dea3fe@mail.gmail.com> <20070128162907.370f5476.akpm@osdl.org> <21d7e9970701281639w57edc2efw4ba620d4c1bdcee7@mail.gmail.com> <20070130203301.GA15067@dreamland.darkstar.lan> <20070204201713.GA12867@dreamland.darkstar.lan> <20070205201824.GA13431@dreamland.darkstar.lan> <20070207234837.GA27822@dreamland.darkstar.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 16 > > There is no stand alone nvidia card i2c driver. Its the issue of sharing > > device interfaces with the same hardware problem again!!! > > Nah, nvidiafb registers the I2C busses, you can drive them with whatever > you want through the devices exported by I2C core. > The fact the none of them work makes me think that the EDID is coming > from the BIOS, we do VBE calls in real mode during early kernel setup. What I meant is we can't load the i2c code seperate from the fbdev driver. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/