Include DRM OMAP driver to have proper EDID detection

I'm building the new deb after rebasing with current kernel head and will post the debs for more testing.

Tobin, once I post the new deb can you check it with your monitors? If it works fine I'll forward to the kernel team mailing list.

You can find the new debs at http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/omap3-drm/ (2.6.38-8.41).

Tested Ricardo's kernel. Everything looks good from here. Autodetected my Dell 24" monitor and set resolution to 1400x900 with no kernel boot parameters. Nothing in dmesg or Xorg.0.log indicating any issues.

While debugging, omapdss.debug=y drm.debug=7 can also be useful when added at the command line.

If the user still wants to set the resolution by hand, he can use the video argument, like "video=DVI-D-1:1280x720MR@60".

Pull request: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2011-April/015308.html

Based on Mailing list discussions, marking the Natty task Won't Fix.

~JFo

Hi Ricardo,

I see this has been nominated against Oneiric. What's the current status of the patches with regards to Oneiric? Are there still patches which are needed? Thanks.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Leann Ogasawara
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> I see this has been nominated against Oneiric.  What's the current
> status of the patches with regards to Oneiric?  Are there still patches
> which are needed?  Thanks.

Hi Lean,

This driver was just accepted for the Oneiric omap 4 kernel branch,
and enabled by default, but unfortunately it's still not upstream
(should be included at staging for 3.2).

As to make it available we'd need to maintain the whole patch series
for oneiric (more than 10 patches), I'd recommend to skip Oneiric but
get it back for P. Meanwhile users that want such features can use the
omap 4 kernel, or the ones from Linaro.

Thanks for the update Ricardo.

Per your feedback, I'm closing the Oneiric nomination for now and will open the P-series nomination to track this going forward. Thanks.

Leann, after checking the current state of the DVI driver that is enabled for OMAP 3, I don't think we need to include and maintain the OMAP DRM patchset anymore.

The new panel-dvi driver (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-precise.git;a=blob;f=drivers/video/omap2/displays/panel-dvi.c) is already probing and parsing the EDID correctly, and this is already enabled for Beagle at the omap 3 kernel (enabled by ppsati this week). This driver is based on an implementation I had before moving to the DRM driver, so it should be fine for Precise (as for OMAP 4 the OMAP DRM driver is already included anyway).

Thanks for the feedback. I'll go ahead and close this out for Precise. Thanks.