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
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