Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info

From: James Simmons
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 12:57:24 EST



> > There is no stand alone nvidia card i2c driver. Its the issue of sharing
> > device interfaces with the same hardware problem again!!!
>
> Nah, nvidiafb registers the I2C busses, you can drive them with whatever
> you want through the devices exported by I2C core.
> The fact the none of them work makes me think that the EDID is coming
> from the BIOS, we do VBE calls in real mode during early kernel setup.

What I meant is we can't load the i2c code seperate from the fbdev driver.

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