re: Adding static EDID data to autoconf

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> I have a Naturetech Mesostation-999 with an XVR-100 clone and a 1440x900
> screen.  It doesn't provide any EDID [*], so I'd like to add static EDID
> in the same way that macppc does (thanks to Michael for the hint!).  The
> patch is attached.  However, autoconf.c now has a number of places that
> we're doing fixups for various machines and it seems better to move those
> fixups somewhere else.  I wondered about moving them to a separate file or
> (easier) to a new set of functions in autoconf.c.  Any thoughts on this,
> or are the fixups fine as they are?

i think keeping it all in autoconf.c but in separate functions
is best.  i look in a port's autoconf.c for this code, and while
i imagine eg, device_register() itself remains there, i think it
is reasonable to keep the rest there just in new functions on
a per-type basis.

thanks.


.mrg.