From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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 > > 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. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Simmons Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:56:57 +0000 (GMT) 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> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFDWA-0004fq-Np for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:57:11 -0800 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HFDW7-0002EG-Ag for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:57:10 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20070207234837.GA27822@dreamland.darkstar.lan> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Andrew Morton , Giuseppe Bilotta , Dave Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642