Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760957AbXEWAk1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 20:40:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757147AbXEWAkS (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 20:40:18 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:21930 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757141AbXEWAkP (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 20:40:15 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=WhtIFD70N7AJNU7fNB15MGASlZZJ3OL43HlMapB2IUFX9CJIA4Wr7ARtSx9XddRwT6vAXyAXbBEtgokSMdRa1VstV5cCSChA30m5i2UFIZOCRyhfuU/APhDev4bWPFVcpWUw1Oa463uyG0xO1GKIQuwNgg/M6b80QJSYPHBR6A0= Subject: Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem From: "Antonino A. Daplas" To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jesse Barnes , James Simmons , Dave Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200705221636.20848.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> References: <200705171423.46748.jesse.barnes@intel.com> <200705220839.04773.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <1179876398.32247.885.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200705221636.20848.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:40:08 +0800 Message-Id: <1179880808.4638.5.camel@daplas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1449 Lines: 35 On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:36 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, May 22, 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:39 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > The current code does its best to figure out what modes are available > > > and tries to pick a good one for each display. It sounds like you're > > > mainly concerned with the actual mode picking, not the mode and output > > > detection and enumeration? If so, that's a pretty easy change to > > > make. But if you're also worried about the kernel building mode > > > lists, then we'll have bigger changes to make... > > > > I'm worried that the EDID we get from the monitor is bogus and needs to > > be overriden. > > > > Now, if the kernel builds a mode list, that's find if we have a call to > > "feed" it with a replacement one later on from userland. > > > > In addition, there are all those monitors that cannot be probed (no > > DDC/EDID) and for which only userland can reasonably provide a mode or a > > mode list. > > Yeah, we already have a call to add modes to the kernel's list, so we > should be covered. > We actually have a function that will replace the entire mode list with a new one safely. Tony - 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/