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

[G 3]

On Oct 1, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:

> On 2016-Oct-1 20:39 , G 3 wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Ah! So this has nothing to do with OpenBIOS or the VGA driver under  
> it,
> it's a means of passing information from the outside entity into  
> MacOS.
>
> Does MacOS demand the list be a property of the VGA display node?  
> If so,
> does it want it as a string or as an array of integers?

Actually the Mac OS gets all its information from the VGA driver. It  
would be
the VGA driver that would read the list in OpenBIOS. Currently the  
VGA driver
needs the list to an array of integers.