[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/4] SeaVGABios/cbvga: Assume VGA compatible GPU in text-mode

[Patrick Rudolph]

On Sat Mar 18 02:04:38 CET 2017, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> Assume the GPU is VGA compatible when running in text-mode.
>> Advertise VGA modes using SeaVGABios' stdvga driver.
>> running in text mode, even when not advertised.
>> 
>> Allows Windows 7 to boot in 640x480 and 16 colors mode using the
>> VgaSave driver.
>> Allows Windows 7 to show the loading bar splash screen.
>> 
>> Known issues:
>> The palette seems wrong, as colors are swapped ( blue is red, ... ).
>
>What graphics hardware did you test this on?
>
>If stdvga_set_mode() works on the hardware, why not use stdvga
>seavgabios and get the rest of the vgabios functionality?  (That is,
>why use cbvga seavgabios at all?)

I'm on Lenovo T500 (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD).
I'm going to do some tests using stdvga instead of cbvga.

Regards,
Patrick