Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#10570 closed enhancement

Native video mode with VESA through vesa bios live patching — at Version 1

Reported by: pulkomandy Owned by: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: R1/beta4
Component: Drivers/Graphics/VESA Version: R1/Development
Keywords: PatchVBios Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description (last modified by diver)

This is a trick used in the Clover bootloader to get native video modes from VESA. The idea is to patch the VESA BIOS (which is shadowed in RAM) and replace the video mode tables with the EDID data.

This gets native video mode on ATI, NVidia and Intel cards, without the need to write an actual driver. Their Vesa BIOS is smart enough to accept any resolution in the table.

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,1227.0.html

http://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/code/HEAD/tree/BiosVideo/

Change History (1)

comment:1 by diver, 10 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
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