BootX enhancement request

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 1999, Paul Mackerras <paulus at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> >The second is that macos is now using mode numbers > 20.  I haven't
> >worked out the correspondence yet.
> 
> MacOS no longer relies on the nvram setting. Video drivers are free to
> put whatever they want in their own device tree node, and usually store
> an nvram value for the mode there, but this is proprietary and depends on
> the driver. MacOS itself now stores the various infos in a preferences
> file. The old "Monitors" control panel still updates the old pram
> location with a mode value but the meaning is not guaranteed (can be
> driver specific).

Thus I can remove the nvram code from atyfb?

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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