Re: [SeaBIOS] Flat Panel Support

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 04:47:15PM +0200, 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?
>
> 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 :/

Be sure to check out a previous set of edid patches at:

http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2012-March/003343.html

-Kevin