On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Kyungmin Park <kmpark at infradead.org> wrote: >>> Just thinking hypothetically.. what if some future device had two hdmi >>> controllers. ?Then you'd want two instances of the same display >>> object. >>> >>> Although it seems this API is just internal to the DRM driver (which I >>> had not realized earlier), so it should be pretty easy to change later >>> if needed. >>> >> >> You are right. I guess we should consider multiple instances to display >> object because the Exynos hardware has two display controllers and also each >> display controller needs one display panel with sharing same driver. thank >> you for your pointing. :) > > Two HDMI and two FIMD is different. even though exynos4 supports the > two display controller. it has only one HDMI port and now there's no > device to use it. Of course if new device uses it. it will support it. > I mena currently make it simple and make it TODO list.
yeah.. since it is just an API internal to the driver, and not external (as I initially mistakenly thought), I don't think it is an immediate issue. It should be easy enough to change later if you, for example, later had hw w/ two HDMI ports. BR, -R > Thank you, > Kyungmin Park
