Re HDMI transmitter interface

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>I made some progress on the TDA19988 HDMI transmitter driver as
>found in the beaglebone black (doens't work yet, sorry :).
>The driver will attach directly to the i2c bus, because other
>devices are also connected to this bus (eeprom, the power managenent IC, and
>more depending on connected capes). Then the TDA19988 driver and the
>video drivers have to talk together: the TDA19988 driver knows when a
>monitor is connected/disconnected and also can read the EDID, and
>the video driver knows which mode to select.

Had you considered using the drmkms code for this SoC ?

Current Linux sources have a driver for the display and for this HDMI
transmitter.

They were added to Linux after the last import that riastradh@ made so
are not in the NetBSD tree yet.

Robert Swindells