On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:48:27 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 04/30/14 06:36, Ed Maste wrote: > > On 30 April 2014 01:41, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> So, to make universally bootable install media, we have to switch the > >> default console driver to newcons. This means we need to finish polishing > >> newcons and need to think about what, exactly, the missing pieces are to > >> enable it as the default. > > There's a Newcons wiki page at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons with > > some details, but I believe the main points are: > > > > 1. Documentation. We currently have no vt(4) man page so one needs to > > be written, and other pages likely need to be updated. Other > > documentation (like the handbook) need to be investigated. > > 2. Control tools (e.g. kbdmap(1), vidcontrol(1), vidfont(1)) need to > > be updated. Alexandr posted a patch for vidcontrol with the subject > > "RFT vidcontrol for vt(4)" > > 3. Provide console fonts for vt, equivalent to /usr/share/syscons/fonts. > > 4. Address some performance issues, especially on certain non-x86 and > > low-end hardware, and in virtual machines. > > 5. Address boot console priority. > > > > Which of these are blockers before turning it on in GENERIC for wider > testing? Point #1 is a must, I think. #2 seems potentially destructive: > do we want to have to make them work with both syscons and vt? #5 we've > worked around for the time being. #4 would be nice, but maybe wider > testing helps with it. It's painfully slow on regular x86 hardware as > well -- my brand-new Lenovo laptop for instance. But I think we could > switch GENERIC on -CURRENT over only after writing some documentation. > -Nathan
I would prefer having a boot time knob to switch between vt or sc and being able to include both in the kernel. The boot time knob could default to vt when booting from EFI. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
