On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:15:33PM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Dec 17, 2013 2:08 PM, "Steve Kargl" <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:20:53PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote: > > > > > > To get VT switching when using KMS drivers (ATI, Intel) please use > > > newcons: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons or if that is not possible, > > > force the use of the vesa driver for xorg. > > > > It appears that newcons is unusable with a static kernel. > > Adding 'device drm2' and 'device i915kms' to my kernel > > config results in a quick death to 'make buldkernel'. > > I'm rapidly wondering if building this way should become unsupported. Too > muxh unknown stuff is needed at startup and wed have to load all firmware > bits to make it remotely work.
Well, in that case, it should be formally deprecated, which means it is here for at least the FreeBSD-11 release cycle. I suppose you can try to fast-track the deprecation by having Release Engineering slip a note into the Release Notes of FreeBSD-10. -- Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
