Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:29:23 +0200, Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com wrote:

It would be nice to have a model that fits both DSI and SDVO, and the option to configure some of it from userspace.

I thought the purpose of drm_encoder was to abstract hardware like this?

SDVO is entirely hidden by the drm_encoder interface; some of the controls (like TV encoder parameters) are exposed through DRM properties, others are used in the basic configuration of the device.

I'm not sure we need a new abstraction that subsumes both DSI and SDVO, but we may need a DSI library that can be used by both DRM and other parts of the kernel.