[Intel-gfx] Intel graphics drm issue?

[Bruno Prémont]

On Sun, 14 October 2012 Mark Hounschell <dmarkh at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >> And could I ask if this simple pgm might work to build the file I need?
> >
> > It looks fine. You can also check the output with hexdump just to
> > make sure it looks sane.
> 
> Did that and the data looks swapped compared to the array written, but I 
> guess that's normal?

That might very well be presentation issue, how did you call hexdump?
When called with no arguments but filename it groups bytes as words and
those look swapped (on little-endian), but `hexdump -C $file` is fine,
dumping each byte individually.

> > If it's broken kernel will tell you that checksum does not match.
> >
> 
> So the  check sum is actually already in the data provided by the service 
> manual then.

Yes, checksum byte is part of the EDID blob.

Bruno

> > In any case the (successful) loading of edid should be visible in kernel
> > log.
> >
> 
> I'll be trying this a little later in the day.
> 
> Thanks again
> Mark