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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-11 08:27:49 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-11 08:27:49 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 6.6.15.upstream/6.6.15
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/video-output.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/video-output.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..56d6fa2e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/video-output.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Video Output Switcher Control +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +2006 luming.yu@intel.com + +The output sysfs class driver provides an abstract video output layer that +can be used to hook platform specific methods to enable/disable video output +device through common sysfs interface. For example, on my IBM ThinkPad T42 +laptop, The ACPI video driver registered its output devices and read/write +method for 'state' with output sysfs class. The user interface under sysfs is:: + + linux:/sys/class/video_output # tree . + . + |-- CRT0 + | |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 + | |-- state + | |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output + | `-- uevent + |-- DVI0 + | |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 + | |-- state + | |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output + | `-- uevent + |-- LCD0 + | |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 + | |-- state + | |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output + | `-- uevent + `-- TV0 + |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 + |-- state + |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output + `-- uevent + |