1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
7 In the good old days when graphics parameters were configured explicitly
8 in a file called xorg.conf, even broken hardware could be managed.
10 Today, with the advent of Kernel Mode Setting, a graphics board is
11 either correctly working because all components follow the standards -
12 or the computer is unusable, because the screen remains dark after
13 booting or it displays the wrong area. Cases when this happens are:
15 - The graphics board does not recognize the monitor.
16 - The graphics board is unable to detect any EDID data.
17 - The graphics board incorrectly forwards EDID data to the driver.
18 - The monitor sends no or bogus EDID data.
19 - A KVM sends its own EDID data instead of querying the connected monitor.
21 Adding the kernel parameter "nomodeset" helps in most cases, but causes
22 restrictions later on.
24 As a remedy for such situations, the kernel configuration item
25 CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE was introduced. It allows to provide an
26 individually prepared or corrected EDID data set in the /lib/firmware
27 directory from where it is loaded via the firmware interface. The code
28 (see drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c) contains built-in data sets for
29 commonly used screen resolutions (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200,
30 1680x1050, 1920x1080) as binary blobs, but the kernel source tree does
31 not contain code to create these data. In order to elucidate the origin
32 of the built-in binary EDID blobs and to facilitate the creation of
33 individual data for a specific misbehaving monitor, commented sources
34 and a Makefile environment are given here.
36 To create binary EDID and C source code files from the existing data
37 material, simply type "make" in tools/edid/.
39 If you want to create your own EDID file, copy the file 1024x768.S,
40 replace the settings with your own data and add a new target to the
41 Makefile. Please note that the EDID data structure expects the timing
42 values in a different way as compared to the standard X11 format.
46 hdisp hsyncstart hsyncend htotal
48 vdisp vsyncstart vsyncend vtotal
53 #define XBLANK htotal-hdisp
54 #define XOFFSET hsyncstart-hdisp
55 #define XPULSE hsyncend-hsyncstart
58 #define YBLANK vtotal-vdisp
59 #define YOFFSET vsyncstart-vdisp
60 #define YPULSE vsyncend-vsyncstart