Re: [PATCH] Missing references to vt(4) "NEWCONS" in man-pages

2014-08-22 Thread Ed Maste
Notes on two of the man pages: On 21 August 2014 03:29, Stefan Esser wrote: > share/man/man4/terasic_mtl.4 (does this driver work with vt???) Not yet. I have a patch in another tree to add support. > share/man/man4/vga.4 This one is syscons-specific. We pondered having a vt_vga(4) page, but th

Re: newcons

2022-02-22 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 21:54, Graham Perrin wrote: > > Bugs 261909 and 261914 use the word 'newcons' which was vaguely familiar to > me, but had no real meaning. Not properly documented: Newcons was the nickname used for vt(4) during its development. PRs etc. ought to use just "vt" (and the Wiki

Re: Documentation of /usr/src directory layout

2022-10-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 12:07, Mitchell Horne wrote: > > I propose that we reduce the maintenance overhead by keeping one of > these lists as the source of truth. README.md is the more natural option > here: being located at the root of the src tree it is more discoverable > (especially for those n