Option "MacModel" (Re: [Bug 10418] Powerbook DVI out only works when booted with monitor attached)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:26 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:47 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:29:39PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So basically, it looks like:
> > > >
> > > > PowerBook5,*:               'powerbook-exttmds'
> > >
> > > Or more specifically
> > >   PowerBook5,[1-5]:  'powerbook-exttmds-single'
> > >   PowerBook5,[78]:  'powerbook-exttmds-dual'
> > >   PowerBook5,6: either 'powerbook-exttmds-single' or 'powerbook-exttmds-dual'
> > >
> > > Looking at the bugreport.. Both options seem different enough in that things
> > > work for me with a 5,2, but not for another reporter with a 5,8. (Maybe there
> > > can be one way that works for both though, who knows).
> >
> > Yeah, I was assuming the TMDS type could be autodetected, but maybe not
> > - is it part of the connector tables as well?
> 
> all the connector table cares about is whether it's external or
> internal TMDS.  we'd need a way to detect or hardcode the external
> TMDS chip.  Unfortunately, it seems all sil chips have the same values
> for vendor and chip id, so that's useless.  We can either
> change/extend the MacModel range or add another option to specify the
> external chip.

Probably the latter, or is this Mac specific?


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