* Luc Verhaegen libv@skynet.be [070526 12:14]:
BTW: Can we switch to certain resolutions and depths, as well as use different outputs (VGA, TV, ..) with your userspace utility?
No, this is purely to get 640x480 textmode to work on the CRT connection. This is the safe option that will work for 98% of the EPIA-M users out there. The other 2% are those who are fully dependant on the DVI or LVDS/RGB display modules.
Or they will just use the VGA BIOS which can do all, I think.
I can of course insert a full modesetting system, but that will mean doing things like EDID parsing and cvt modeline generation in linuxbios. And this will all be getting rather big rather quickly.
Does VIA's graphics bios do all that? Can it be done in a non-VIA-only way?
640x480@60Hz is somewhat safe, as most devices on the CRT connection will be able to handle this, as this is the default BIOS textmode.
default text mode sucks ;) but ignore me, i'm the bootsplash guy