On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:28:02PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > >I _think_ the right solution is to hide the NVRAM vmode/cmode stuff in > >macmodes.c, so all drivers will automagically use it for the default video > >mode. > > > >The same with MAC monitor sense information, just pass it to mac_find_mode(). > > > >So mac_find_mode() should do this: > > > > - if default mode specified, try that > > - if MAC monitor sense specified, try that > > - if NVRAM, try that > > - fall back to default mode database walking > > No, the NVRAM stuff is driver dependant unfortunately. It's almost common > among drivers for old stuffs like control, chips, etc..., but that is not > the case for recent MacOS drivers. Apple no longer defines a single mode > table, each video driver is now responsible to have it's own mecanism for > that and for storing whatever proprety for saving the mode to nvram. In > fact; the old nvram location is a hack that won't work in all cases as > it's not in xpram any more, it's part of the "device tree extension" part > of the nvram (persistent properties added to selected nodes of the > device-tree).
Wasn't there a tool to fiddle and store the vmode/cmode stuff into NVRAM tho which would probably work with all of the other cards? -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
