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authorAntonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>2006-06-26 00:26:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-26 09:58:30 -0700
commitba70710e59c701734aad524bc441b3400700e94b (patch)
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[PATCH] fbdev: Firmware EDID fixes
- make firmware edid independent from framebuffer (No need to choose framebuffer just to disable this option - enable this option in X86_64 - check if VBE/DDC function is implemented before calling actual function Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/Kconfig31
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/fbmon.c2
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/Kconfig b/drivers/video/Kconfig
index 90cd5587d4e3..2a265e1c7cbc 100644
--- a/drivers/video/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,21 @@
menu "Graphics support"
+config FIRMWARE_EDID
+ bool "Enable firmware EDID"
+ default y
+ ---help---
+ This enables access to the EDID transferred from the firmware.
+ On the i386, this is from the Video BIOS. Enable this if DDC/I2C
+ transfers do not work for your driver and if you are using
+ nvidiafb, i810fb or savagefb.
+
+ In general, choosing Y for this option is safe. If you
+ experience extremely long delays while booting before you get
+ something on your display, try setting this to N. Matrox cards in
+ combination with certain motherboards and monitors are known to
+ suffer from this problem.
+
config FB
tristate "Support for frame buffer devices"
---help---
@@ -70,22 +85,6 @@ config FB_MACMODES
depends on FB
default n
-config FB_FIRMWARE_EDID
- bool "Enable firmware EDID"
- depends on FB
- default y
- ---help---
- This enables access to the EDID transferred from the firmware.
- On the i386, this is from the Video BIOS. Enable this if DDC/I2C
- transfers do not work for your driver and if you are using
- nvidiafb, i810fb or savagefb.
-
- In general, choosing Y for this option is safe. If you
- experience extremely long delays while booting before you get
- something on your display, try setting this to N. Matrox cards in
- combination with certain motherboards and monitors are known to
- suffer from this problem.
-
config FB_BACKLIGHT
bool
depends on FB
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmon.c b/drivers/video/fbmon.c
index 87b0224d2347..3ccfff715a51 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbmon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbmon.c
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ int fb_validate_mode(const struct fb_var_screeninfo *var, struct fb_info *info)
-EINVAL : 0;
}
-#if defined(CONFIG_FB_FIRMWARE_EDID) && defined(__i386__)
+#if defined(CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID) && defined(CONFIG_X86)
/*
* We need to ensure that the EDID block is only returned for