RE: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-24 Thread Anindya Mukherjee
t: January 20, 2017 3:11 PM To: Anindya Mukherjee Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns hiya, Mechanically it doesn't look /that/ hard: * vesa.ko pulls in the vesa.c bits and the syscons vesa control bits. Ideally we'd have them as two

RE: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-21 Thread Anindya Mukherjee
Thanks! I needed a breakdown like this. I'll need to study the code a bit more. Anindya From: Adrian Chadd [adrian.ch...@gmail.com] Sent: January 20, 2017 3:11 PM To: Anindya Mukherjee Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt(4) chops of

RE: vt(4) chops off the leftmost three columns

2017-01-19 Thread Anindya Mukherjee
Hi Adrian, I was looking at the source for the vt driver. Wondering how much work it is to add VESA support to the VGA backend? As you say ATM it's hardcoded to use 640x480. Pardon my ignorance, but can we reuse any VESA code from syscons? Also, how dependent is splash/screensaver support on th

RE: New Lock Order Reversal in 12.0?

2017-01-09 Thread Anindya Mukherjee
Good, that makes me feel better :) The system is running fine, so I think you're right and it's nothing to worry about. Thanks again for your responses. Best, Anindya From: Benjamin Kaduk [ka...@mit.edu] Sent: January 9, 2017 1:53 PM To: Anindya

RE: New Lock Order Reversal in 12.0?

2017-01-08 Thread Anindya Mukherjee
ever happens. Best, Anindya From: Benjamin Kaduk [ka...@mit.edu] Sent: January 8, 2017 4:47 PM To: Anindya Mukherjee Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Lock Order Reversal in 12.0? On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 12:32:28AM +, Anindya Mukherjee wrote: > Hi, I'm running

New Lock Order Reversal in 12.0?

2017-01-08 Thread Anindya Mukherjee
Hi, I'm running 12.0-current and noticed a LOR message from WITNESS which I couldn't find a report about. I looked at http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html, among other places. system details: root@triskelion:~ # uname -a FreeBSD triskelion 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r311461: Th