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

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Sun May 27 00:26:44 CEST 2007


On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:37:48PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> 
> I think that's the one, yes. I "only" needed fbdev support so I tried
> it and it worked well. (Yes, with the VGA BIOS.) Is there another way
> to get fbdev that you recommend?

Not, yet, one day, maybe :)

> Does xf86-video-unichrome also work on the plain EPIA by the way?

No, that's a close relation of the trident family.

> > 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 it have to be done at runtime? A compile time option for
> graphics mode and output would be a really great feature too.

It would require runtime configuration. People should not rebuild 
their BIOS to change, say, monitors.

But then, i prefer to spend time on a full featured FB driver instead.

Luc Verhaegen.




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