EDID has (essentially) three statically defined mode lists: Established, Established III, and DMT. The DMT list is _almost_ a superset of the other two, except. EST slot 0 is DMT slot 8 EST slot 1 is DMT slot 7 EST slot 2 is DMT slot 5 EST slot 3 is DMT slot 4 EST slot 5 is DMT slot 3 EST slot 8 is DMT slot 35 EST slot 9 is DMT slot 17 EST slot 10 is DMT slot 16 EST slot 11 is DMT slot 15 EST slot 12 is DMT slot 14 EST slot 14 is DMT slot 10 EST slot 15 is DMT slot 9 EST slot 16 is DMT slot 20 EST slots 4, 6, 7, 13 are: 640x480 @ 67HZ 720x400 @ 88Hz 720x400 @ 70Hz 832x624 @ 75Hz Everything in EST3 is in DMT, except for slot 35 (1792x1344 @ 85Hz). Strong work, VESA. DisplayID, however, encodes the DMT list indexes directly. So if you built a unified list for DMT+EDIDextras and indexed into that, you'd have to do so for DisplayID too (probably not 1:1). This is really pure optimization. Each mode is only 60 (or 64) bytes as it is. So you're going from 64 * (17 + 44 + 80) = 9024 for three lists, to 64 * 85 + (17 + 44 + 80) = 5581 for one master list and three indices. Kinda tough to care about one page of .rodata.