On 4/1/09, Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 11:30 +0800, yakui_zhao wrote: > > Subject: [DRM/I915]: Sync the default modes for LVDS output device > > From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.z...@intel.com> > > > > Sync the default modes for the LVDS output device > > This covers: > > Add the default modes for the LVDS output device. > > The bit of edid->feature.msc indicates whether the display device is > not > > continous-frequency. And it is used to determine whether the default modes > will > > be added to the output device. > > But for the LVDS output device the edid->feature.msc will always be > set.Even > > when there is no edid, the correponding bit in the fake edid will be set. > > In such case the default modes will be added to LVDS output device. > > If not, the different modes are obtained by using KMS/UMS. > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.z...@intel.com> > > These giant tables of modes are insane. Especially having a bunch of > different refresh rates when the LVDS actually has a fixed refresh rate. > Just generate a mode at each appropriate size using GTF or CVT. > > I'm not really sold on the whole idea of the kernel generating these > fake modes for LVDS, given that we can support any size and that the > refresh rate is a lie since we're always using the fixed mode. Any > other opinions on this? >
Maybe a common drm mode function helper that will add a bunch of common (4:3 and 16:9) modes that fixed mode encoders like LVDS can call. We certainly don't need to add modes with differing refresh rates. Alex > > -- > Eric Anholt > e...@anholt.net eric.anh...@intel.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
