Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Pekka Paalanen
Hi all, with display servers proliferating thanks to Wayland, and the Linux kernel exposing only a very limited set of information based on EDID (rightfully so!), the need to interpret EDID blobs is spreading even more. I would like to start the discussion about starting a project to develop a sha

Re: Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:44:04 +0300 Pekka Paalanen said: > Hi all, > > with display servers proliferating thanks to Wayland, and the Linux > kernel exposing only a very limited set of information based on EDID > (rightfully so!), the need to interpret EDID blobs is spreading even > more. I would l

Re: Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Jani Nikula
On Wed, 07 Apr 2021, Hans Verkuil wrote: > It is the most complete EDID parser I know based on the various standards. Does it support pure DisplayID in addition to DisplayID blocks embedded to EDID extension blocks? I think we'll be needing that sometime in the near future. (We don't yet support

Re: Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Simon Ser
FWIW, with my Sway/wlroots hat on I think this is a great idea and I'd definitely be interested in using such as library. A C API with no dependencies is pretty important from my point-of-view. I'd prefer if C++ was not used at all (and could almost be baited into doing the work if that were the c

Re: Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Hans Verkuil
Hi Pekka, On 07/04/2021 10:44, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > Hi all, > > with display servers proliferating thanks to Wayland, and the Linux > kernel exposing only a very limited set of information based on EDID > (rightfully so!), the need to interpret EDID blobs is spreading even > more. I would like

Re: Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Hans Verkuil
On 07/04/2021 12:31, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 07 Apr 2021, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> It is the most complete EDID parser I know based on the various standards. > > Does it support pure DisplayID in addition to DisplayID blocks embedded > to EDID extension blocks? I think we'll be needing that so

Re: Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Jonas Ådahl
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 10:59:18AM +, Simon Ser wrote: > FWIW, with my Sway/wlroots hat on I think this is a great idea and I'd > definitely be interested in using such as library. A C API with no > dependencies is pretty important from my point-of-view. > > I'd prefer if C++ was not used at a

Re: Call for an EDID parsing library

2021-04-07 Thread Alan Griffiths
On 07/04/2021 13:40, Jonas Ådahl wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 10:59:18AM +, Simon Ser wrote: FWIW, with my Sway/wlroots hat on I think this is a great idea and I'd definitely be interested in using such as library. A C API with no dependencies is pretty important from my point-of-view. I'

[ANNOUNCE] libxkbcommon 1.2.1

2021-04-07 Thread Ran Benita
libxkbcommon 1.2.1 = - Fix `xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device()` failing when the keymap contains key types with missing level names, like the one used by the `numpad:mac` option in xkeyboard-config. Regressed in 1.2.0. Tarball: git tag: xkbcommon-1.2.1 https://xkbcomm