On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko < phco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > ... as Stefan points out (thanks Stefan) this may not be so >> > straightforwarded. I don't think this kind of tweaking is suitable >> > for a setup that "Joe user" will get by default. >> > >> > Btw, if the video rom can be obtained directly from memory, why doesn't >> > GRUB read it in runtime instead? >> >> Actually, the modified rom is what we need, as it contains information >> such as DDC table which is detected on POST, the original rom is not >> very useful in this respect. >> >> A better approach would be to fetch the rom from pci, then emulate the >> POST process in grub2. But this need to port code from x86emu. >> > Default boot.efi passes to OSX kernel a blob device-properties containing > some information about graphic and sound card. I'm nearly sure that it's > retrieved from EFI and have an idea how but am not entirely sure yet. > Forgot the most important question: does it help in any way to generate a suitable dump within grub itself? -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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