Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions about EDID

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > Well, not really.  EDID is about monitor capabilities.  The monitor will
> > see 8 bit per color channel, no matter whenever your GPU composes that
> > signal using a 8bpp mode + color palette or 24bpp mode with direct
> > color.
> 
> Hmmm okay. Perhaps it might still be worth hooking -g XxYxD to also put X and 
> Y into
> xres and yres within the EDID so at least everything is consistent between 
> OpenBIOS
> and the client driver when it eventually loads?

That makes sense, sure.  Will be a bit tricky due to (I think) only ppc
and sparc actually looking at -g right now, to make sure current
behavior of the other archs doesn't change when -g is not specified.

cheers,
  Gerd