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diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/vivid.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/vivid.txt index 8da5d2a576bc..1b26519c6ddc 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/vivid.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/vivid.txt @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ Section 11: Cropping, Composing, Scaling Section 12: Formats Section 13: Capture Overlay Section 14: Output Overlay -Section 15: Some Future Improvements +Section 15: CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) +Section 16: Some Future Improvements Section 1: Configuring the driver @@ -364,7 +365,11 @@ For HDMI inputs it is possible to set the EDID. By default a simple EDID is provided. You can only set the EDID for HDMI inputs. Internally, however, the EDID is shared between all HDMI inputs. -No interpretation is done of the EDID data. +No interpretation is done of the EDID data with the exception of the +physical address. See the CEC section for more details. + +There is a maximum of 15 HDMI inputs (if there are more, then they will be +reduced to 15) since that's the limitation of the EDID physical address. Section 3: Video Output @@ -409,6 +414,9 @@ standard, and for all others a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio is returned. An HDMI output has a valid EDID which can be obtained through VIDIOC_G_EDID. +There is a maximum of 15 HDMI outputs (if there are more, then they will be +reduced to 15) since that's the limitation of the EDID physical address. See +also the CEC section for more details. Section 4: VBI Capture ---------------------- @@ -1108,7 +1116,26 @@ capabilities will slow down the video loop considerably as a lot of checks have to be done per pixel. -Section 15: Some Future Improvements +Section 15: CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) +---------------------------------------------- + +If there are HDMI inputs then a CEC adapter will be created that has +the same number of input ports. This is the equivalent of e.g. a TV that +has that number of inputs. Each HDMI output will also create a +CEC adapter that is hooked up to the corresponding input port, or (if there +are more outputs than inputs) is not hooked up at all. In other words, +this is the equivalent of hooking up each output device to an input port of +the TV. Any remaining output devices remain unconnected. + +The EDID that each output reads reports a unique CEC physical address that is +based on the physical address of the EDID of the input. So if the EDID of the +receiver has physical address A.B.0.0, then each output will see an EDID +containing physical address A.B.C.0 where C is 1 to the number of inputs. If +there are more outputs than inputs then the remaining outputs have a CEC adapter +that is disabled and reports an invalid physical address. + + +Section 16: Some Future Improvements ------------------------------------ Just as a reminder and in no particular order: @@ -1121,8 +1148,6 @@ Just as a reminder and in no particular order: - Fix sequence/field numbering when looping of video with alternate fields - Add support for V4L2_CID_BG_COLOR for video outputs - Add ARGB888 overlay support: better testing of the alpha channel -- Add custom DV timings support -- Add support for V4L2_DV_FL_REDUCED_FPS - Improve pixel aspect support in the tpg code by passing a real v4l2_fract - Use per-queue locks and/or per-device locks to improve throughput - Add support to loop from a specific output to a specific input across @@ -1133,3 +1158,4 @@ Just as a reminder and in no particular order: - Make a thread for the RDS generation, that would help in particular for the "Controls" RDS Rx I/O Mode as the read-only RDS controls could be updated in real-time. +- Changing the EDID should cause hotplug detect emulation to happen. |