Subject: Re: struct videomode
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/04/2006 16:04:04
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Hello,

> > At least we'd need a way for display drivers to access EDID data so
> > the iic stuff would need to be attached first. Maybe it makes more =20
> > sense to add some ioctl to wscons instead of using a separate device
> > and then going through the hassle of figuring out which
> > /dev/iic/monitor*   belongs to which display.
>=20
> Yah, that's pretty much my point :-)
>=20
> You don't need to attach a device instance at the i2c bus to use i2c,=20
> either... you could, in the ffb driver, for example, just read from =20
> the device at i2c address 0x80.

True, I could make it a private bus like all the other devices do since
we don't expect anything else there. All the video boards I know which
use TV, MPEG or whatever chips with I2C interface have them on a
separate bus.

have fun
Michael

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