From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzEZZ-0005aa-3L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:49:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzEZT-0001nV-Dn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:49:30 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzEZS-0001j3-5W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:49:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 06:49:23 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann Message-ID: <20190228054923.wxguahjavmqybddn@sirius.home.kraxel.org> References: <20190225152618.r3epnypkpu6fyokt@sirius.home.kraxel.org> <20190226064347.i5kvwazmz3xcupkj@sirius.home.kraxel.org> <20190227052755.3lgo3265kaa6bzmi@sirius.home.kraxel.org> <1ef851d2-4148-56f0-65ac-a0e75022f20e@ilande.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1ef851d2-4148-56f0-65ac-a0e75022f20e@ilande.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions about EDID List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark Cave-Ayland Cc: G 3 , qemu-devel qemu-devel Hi, > Right, at the moment all the MacOS driver does is parse the resolution list from the > EDID and add them to the dropdown list - it doesn't support the xres and yres properties. > The main reason for this that OpenBIOS currently makes use of the -g XxYxD parameter > to set up the display resolution and bit depth, and AFAICT we currently only have > access to the X and Y resolutions via the EDID blob. So it's not clear whether EDID > can completely replace the existing mechanism yet. EDID can only propagate x + y, not depth. cheers, Gerd