[OpenBIOS] [PATCH v2] Implement copy-resolutions-property

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Oct 2 01:20:34 CEST 2016


On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 19:11 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
> Also you never replied if there was a way of reading the in-built
> resolutions from the QEMU VGA controller? If yes, let's grab the
> information from there. If not, then it would make sense to add the
> basic VGA/XGA resolutions into the QEMU,VGA device as default and then
> simply add any custom resolution to the end of the list.

The emulated HW doesn't have a way to obtain a list of resultions,
at least not that I know of.

> Finally for reference take a look at the Sun Framebuffer FAQ at
> http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/FrameBuffer.html to check the format the mode
> string should be in (it seems to be the format eluded to earlier by
> Tarl) and also the parameter should perhaps be called "fb-mode" which is
> the name used by Apple's OF implementation.



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