Stefan Wahren <stefan.wah...@i2se.com> writes:

>> Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> hat am 4. März 2019 um 19:28 geschrieben:
>> 
>> 
>> Stefan Wahren <stefan.wah...@i2se.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi Maxime,
>> >
>> > Am 04.03.2019 um 15:52 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
>> >> The current code assumes as soon as the device is an HDMI one that it
>> >> supports an audio sink. However, strictly speaking, this is exposed as a
>> >> separate part of EDID.
>> >>
>> >> This can be checked through the drm_detect_monitor_audio function, so 
>> >> let's
>> >> use it and make sure that we can use the HDMI monitor as an output before
>> >> sending sound.
>> >
>> > does the audio output work in the following setup after applying this 
>> > patch?
>> >
>> > VC4 --- HDMI Audio extractor --- Non audio capable monitor
>> 
>> A 1-minute google of audio extractors says they manage the EDID.  Do you
>> have some reason to think this wouldn't work?
>
> My only concern is the existence of some audio extractors which doesn't care 
> about EDID. I that case we need to provide some kind of force switch.

I'm having a hard time imagining such a product existing, given that I
don't think Windows will have "ignore the EDID, force audio anyway"
switches in their UIs.

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