Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/2] Implement VBE function 15h

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:38:42AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
> > Is it worth trying to support high resolutions in Xorg ? If yes, then
> > we need to expose a valid EDID block. But what capabilities should the
> > virtual monitor report ? (I mean max resolution, preferred resolution,
> > should they be static, provided by configuration options, or
> > dynamically chosen at run-time).
>
> At runtime, read from qemu firmware config interface?

The bochsvga code seems to already get a maximum resolution and
maximum depth through the vbi interace.  See the "validate modes"
section of bochsvga.c:bochsvga_init().

-Kevin