Re: Re HDMI transmitter interface

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:15:00PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

No, I though drmkms was x86 only.

> 
> 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.

What is the licence of this code ? I think it's a case where it would be
better to avoid the GPL.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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