Re: [PATCH 2/2] "auto" keyword in gfxmode and gfxpayload specification

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:57:45PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Robert Millan<rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Please could you include a description on what this does?
> >
> when gfxmode=auto the driver is allowed to pick best mode in its
> opinion among the modes appropriate for the task. This is needed
> because
> 1) drivers may be limited to only few modes and it may happen that
> none of supported modes is in usual list of modes to be checked.
> 2) driver may know more about connected peripherics and e.g. prefer
> 1280x800 if it's native resolution of flat panel.

Ah, I see.  Yeah, we really should contemplate into detecting native
resolutions.

But is there any reason we don't want this behaviour when gfxmode was
not set?  If we can avoid an additional keyword, what we do fits better
with what the user would expect.

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Robert Millan

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