[PATCH] ARM: vexpress: initial device tree support

Stephen Warren swarren at nvidia.com
Thu Jan 12 11:49:54 EST 2012


Jamie Lokier wrote at Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:24 AM:
...
> For all the above reasons I think the DDC/EDID support in the kernel
> should be moving gently towards a (very small) DDC/EDID mini-subsystem
> shared by video drivers.  I.e. it should be exposed as a well-known
> I2C bus name, and if it's GPIO bit-banging I2C, that should be exposed
> as well.

I don't think a single well-known bus name would work, since it's very
common for a system to have multiple DDC busses, since they have multiple
video connectors.

However, representing each physical connector as a jack object to user-
space (perhaps related to media controller, or a cross-subsystem extension
of the ALSA jack objects?) and associating the I2C bus ID (or some more
abstract display-oriented ID) with it would make sense.

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