[PATCH 1/2] drm_edid: Add a function to get EDID base block

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 1:30 PM Dmitry Baryshkov
<dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > The problem is that Dmitry didn't like the idea of using a hash and in
> > v2 Hsin-Yi has moved to using the name of the display. ...except of
> > course that eDP panels don't always properly specify
> > "EDID_DETAIL_MONITOR_NAME". See the discussion [1]. If you want to see
> > some of the EDIDs involved, you can see Hsin-Yi's post [2]. The panels
> > included stuff like this:
> >
> >     Alphanumeric Data String: 'AUO'
> >     Alphanumeric Data String: 'B116XAN04.0 '
> >
> > The fact that there is more than one string in there makes it hard to
> > just "return" the display name in a generic way. The way Hsin-Yi's
> > code was doing it was that it would consider it a match if the panel
> > name was in any of the strings...
> >
> > How about this as a solution: we change drm_edid_get_panel_id() to
> > return an opaque type (struct drm_edid_panel_id_blob) that's really
> > just the first block of the EDID but we can all pretend that it isn't.
> > Then we can add a function in drm_edid.c that takes this opaque blob,
> > a 32-bit integer (as per drm_edid_encode_panel_id()), and a string
> > name and it can tell us if the blob matches?
>
> Would it be easier to push drm_edid_match to drm_edid.c? It looks way
> more simpler than the opaque blob.

Yeah, that sounds reasonable / cleaner to me. Good idea! Maybe Hsin-Yi
will be able to try this out and see if there's a reason it wouldn't
work.

-Doug