Re: HDMI open source to handle audio/video/CEC in one driver

From: Raymond Liu
Date: Tue Sep 28 2010 - 16:07:45 EST


Hi Ben and Guennadi,

Really appreciate your inputs.

For temporarily short term purpose (we already had a driver but it did
not fit into any of these you mentioned), what is the process we
should follow to make it an "open source"?

Thanks,
Raymond



On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
<g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Raymond Liu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My company is working on the Linux HDMI open source driver for our
>> chipsets (with audio/video/CEC controls).  Is there any similar
>> project ongoing for this kind of driver in Linux community?  Who
>> should I contact with for this?
>
> I think, it depends on what kind of hardware it is, resp, what kind of a
> driver you'd like to have. Best fit for HDMA, IMHO, is a KMS driver. If,
> however, that's too much for you and you only want a framebuffer driver,
> you might want to have a look, how HDMI support has been recently added to
> the sh_mobile_lcdcfb.c driver - both video and audio. Try to begin here
> http://search.gmane.org/?query=hdmi&group=gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel and
> look for patches from Morimoto-san and myself. But HDMI with framebuffer
> is not a very elegant combination, so, if you can, try KMS.
>
> Good luck
> Guennadi
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Raymond Liu
>>
>> P.S. I wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted to the
>> list in response to my posting.
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