[LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat May 26 17:29:28 CEST 2007


* Luc Verhaegen <libv at 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 at 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

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