Re: [PATCH 0/2] Docs/EDID: Fixed and improved EDID documentation

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 06 Nov 2018, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:48:33 +0100
> Christoph Niedermaier <cniedermaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> A problem was found when EDID data sets for displays other
>> than the provided samples were generated. The patch series has
>> no effect on the provided samples that still match the data
>> used in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c.
>> The provided samples use small values for XOFFSET, XPULSE,
>> YOFFSET and YPULSE, where the error doesn't occur. This fix
>> corrects the use of that values in case of high values, because
>> the most significant bits were treated incorrectly.
>> 
>> The previous version made it necessary to first generate an
>> EDID data set without correct CRC and then to fix the CRC in
>> a second step. This patch series adds the CRC calculation to the
>> makefile in such a way that a correct EDID data set is generated
>> in a single build step.
>
> This seems reasonable, I guess; I've applied both.  It seems to me, though,
> that this stuff is in the wrong place.  Perhaps we should go one step
> further and move it to tools/ ?

And then the next step further would be to write a tool in a high level
language to generate the data rather than assemble the binary. Such a
tool would, of course, catch errors like the ones fixed by this patch.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center