On Oct 1, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
On 2016-Oct-1 19:20 , Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
The emulated HW doesn't have a way to obtain a list of resultions, at least not that I know of.
Sorry if I'm being repetitive here, but it seems I missed a major part of the conversation - by the time I got copied on the conversation, the assumption was that a list was needed.
*Why* does OpenBIOS need a list of resolutions?
It should need one resolution - the one it's told to use. Openbios won't be changing the resolution, so why would it care about resolutions it doesn't use?
There is a VGA driver that was recently made that works with the Mac OS. This driver reports all the resolutions the emulated computer can handle. To make the driver as maintenance free as possible we have decided to move the reported list of resolutions to OpenBIOS. A control panel in the Mac OS list all of these resolutions. The user can then select one and use it.