Hello Wolfgang,
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:02:14 +0200 Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote: ...
I have one (probably stupid) question:
+static unsigned char edid_buf[128] = {
- 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x00,
- 0x42, 0xC9, 0x34, 0x12, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
- 0x0A, 0x0C, 0x01, 0x03, 0x80, 0x98, 0x5B, 0x78,
- 0xCA, 0x7E, 0x50, 0xA0, 0x58, 0x4E, 0x96, 0x25,
- 0x1E, 0x50, 0x54, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x01,
- 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01,
- 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x80, 0x0C,
- 0x20, 0x00, 0x31, 0xE0, 0x2D, 0x10, 0x2A, 0x80,
- 0x12, 0x08, 0x30, 0xE4, 0x10, 0x00, 0x00, 0x18,
- 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFD, 0x00, 0x38, 0x3C, 0x1F,
- 0x3C, 0x04, 0x0A, 0x20, 0x20, 0x20, 0x20, 0x20,
- 0x20, 0x20, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x50,
- 0x4D, 0x30, 0x37, 0x30, 0x57, 0x4C, 0x33, 0x0A,
- 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF,
- 0x00, 0x41, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30,
- 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x30, 0x31, 0x00, 0xD4,
+};
Is there a way to make these magic numbers readbale for a mere human?
The numbers encode some strings (manufacturer, date, display name, etc.) and display parameter numbers. I already thought about the way how to easily generate the structure. Using some macros doesn't make sense, I think. Better would be to describe the display in a file and write a tool that generates the edid data structure from this description.
How do you generate these?
I generated the block using Phoenix EDID Designer 1.3 (a tool for Windows). This creates a text file like:
EDID BYTES: 0x 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F ------------------------------------------------ 00 | 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 42 C9 34 12 01 00 00 00 10 | 0A 0C 01 03 80 98 5B 78 CA 7E 50 A0 58 4E 96 25 20 | 1E 50 54 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 30 | 01 01 01 01 01 01 80 0C 20 40 31 E0 26 10 18 80 40 | 36 00 30 E4 10 00 00 18 00 00 00 FD 00 38 3C 1F 50 | 3C 04 0A 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 FF 00 50 60 | 4D 30 37 30 57 4C 33 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 00 00 00 FF 70 | 00 41 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 00 91
Then I manualy converted the needed bytes to a char array.
Best regards, Anatolij
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