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

G 3 programmingkidx at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 02:39:09 CEST 2016


On Oct 1, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:

> On 2016-Oct-1 19:20 , Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> The emulated HW doesn't have a way to obtain a list of resultions,
>> at least not that I know of.
>
>
> Sorry if I'm being repetitive here, but it seems I missed a major part
> of the conversation - by the time I got copied on the conversation,  
> the
> assumption was that a list was needed.
>
> *Why* does OpenBIOS need a list of resolutions?
>
> It should need one resolution - the one it's told to use. Openbios  
> won't
> be changing the resolution, so why would it care about resolutions it
> doesn't use?

There is a VGA driver that was recently made that works with the Mac  
OS. This
driver reports all the resolutions the emulated computer can handle.  
To make
the driver as maintenance free as possible we have decided to move the
reported list of resolutions to OpenBIOS. A control panel in the Mac OS
list all of these resolutions. The user can then select one and use it.



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