doskel
doskel@doskel.net
OH
OH MY GOD
THERE ARE eDP TO MIPI DSI CONVERTERS
I DON'T HAVE TO DO KERNEL DRIVER SHIT
I MIGHT BE ABLE TO MAKE MY PERFECT COMPUTER
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now i just have to find somewhere to actually buy the damned thing
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@doskel what? I'm so confused on what's going on. Are you actually building your own computer motherboard with its own processing unit?
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@snow my goal is to integrate one of those system-on-module boards (like, pi compute module) and build a little handheld computer
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well and then actually design the circuit with no prior experience in pcb design, solder the dozen 100-pin BGA components, test for wireless interference, fix wireless interference, resolder those components, optimize power consumption...
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okay so it's not sold on digikey but there is a texas instruments chip that converts between eDP and DSI- oh that only does DSI to DP not the other way around FUCK
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there's a toshiba chip on digikey that does exactly what i need but they don't stock it and i'm not buying a thousand of the things
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interfacing with these goddamn displays is like my fucking holy grail
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@doskel@doskel.net you will write drivers and you will be happy
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yeah yeah capitalism bad or whatever can we just make it so i can buy this random chip from toshiba
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@aa honestly writing drivers is one thing but keeping them up-to-date with the kernel and merged into it on any tolerable distro sounds like hell
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@aa NO!
anyway id probably have to make it work anyway because custom input stuff
still though having my only display output be via kmod feels wrong
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@doskel@doskel.net dkms isn't bad I've used it before and it works pretty flawlessly if ur package manager integrates it well
i made a shitty driver for my laptops mux chip so i know a miniscule amount of how to make kmods
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