Re: [SeaBIOS] Flat Panel Support

[Peter Stuge]

Christian Gmeiner wrote:
> I did some more research and came up with the following idea/plan:
>
> * search for valid edid binary blob (maybe this can be done with cbfs
> from coreboot)
> * extend vgasrc/geodevga.c to make use of edid information's
> * extend vgasrc/vbe.c to support edid calls (104f15)
>
> What do you think?

I think it sounds good, but perhaps also consider storing the edid
not in binary but in a format easier to work with, like text?


//Peter

Flat Panel Support

[Christian Gmeiner]

> > I did some more research and came up with the following idea/plan:
> >
> > * search for valid edid binary blob (maybe this can be done with cbfs
> > from coreboot)
> > * extend vgasrc/geodevga.c to make use of edid information's
> > * extend vgasrc/vbe.c to support edid calls (104f15)
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think it sounds good, but perhaps also consider storing the edid
> not in binary but in a format easier to work with, like text?

Lets see how I proceed :)

As I have never done any BIOS interrupt programming I run into the
following issue:

http://nopaste.info/2b38ef0a54.html

As far as I understood this sub interrupt I need to copy/fill in the
edid data to the pointer provided via es/edi.
But I am not really sure how to do it :/

thanks
--
Christian Gmeiner, MSc