I'm doing a feasibility investigation in creating a DisplayPort video capture device using a FPGA as the DisplayPort sink. I'm primarily a hardware/FPGA designer and not a Windows driver developer, so this question might seem basic to software developers.
This particular implementation requires some communication through the DisplayPort HPD (hot plug detection) interrupt. Specifically the "SINK_SPECIFIC_IRQ" defined in the VESA DisplayPort specification. This interrupt needs to be serviced to eventually get to a normal Windows application that will read some I2C application specific status registers mapped through the DisplayPort AUX channel. I'm totally unfamiliar with the Windows OS/driver stack. I assume that Windows somehow presents the HPD interrupt to the AMD video card driver, and that any application would have to go through a video card driver API. Is this correct, or is this directly presented via a Windows API? A pointer to the appropriate AMD driver developer documentation or Windows development documentation would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Steven Fong.
