[haiku-development] Re: S3 Video Driver

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for making it possible to call the video BIOS to set the video mode.
>  After looking at your code, it appears that the vm86_ functions can also be
> used for calling the video BIOS to get the EDID info.  This could be useful
> in the S3 driver since the Boot Manager by using the video BIOS is able to
> successfully read the EDID info from more S3 chips than the S3 driver can.
>

Is it at all possible for the boot loader to preserve and pass on that
information instead?

Regards,

Rene

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