On 14-09-22 05:03 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
The Atom C2xxx boards run OpenBSD fine. Only glitch I've noticed is the screen background goes red if you VT switch twice (ctrl+alt+f2 ctrl+alt+f1).
That "bug" has been around since the 3.x days; the VT code relies on VGA framebuffers initializing something correctly, and increasingly modern VGA implementations don't. First observed under VMware, so Theo refused to fix it back then, but now observable on a wide variety of servers.
Cosmetic problem only, and AFAICT only occurs with text-mode display, not the bitmap-based console available now. Fixing it requires (IIRC - going from memory several years old) resetting all video attributes, preemptively erasing the screen, then resetting to correct and redrawing on every VT switch. Not too hard, but not a one-line fix, either.
OTOH, thank you for confirming the C2xxx series run OpenBSD without glitches - Intel makes a big deal about how the Avoton/Rangeley line require binary blobs to initialize the chipset, which seems ... well, dumb. And barely credible, at best.
-- -Adam Thompson [email protected]
