Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions about EDID

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  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