Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:27:49 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 21643 for review Message-ID: <20021129182749.GB602@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20021129124355.O4948@locore.ca> References: <200211281908.gASJ8pFc092675@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021128144127.F4948@locore.ca> <20021128201834.GA1060@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20021129124355.O4948@locore.ca>
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:43:55PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > > If we do want to proceed in this direction, then it's probably a good > > idea to get more people involved. I'm in no way a vga(4), fb(4) or > > syscons(4) wizard and I don't intend to take this on by myself: it's > > just too hairy... > > Hmm, ok. I don't really know what to suggest in that case. Kazu was the > last person to do extensive work on syscons I think. It may be less work, > for sparc64 at least, to look at importing wscons from netbsd or openbsd > which is much more multi platform aware than syscons. I've been looking at that too but figured it would just be differently hairy, so I decided to stick with something I have already running on another architecture. I'm not partiticularly attached to syscons so if wscons looks more appealing without giving up too many features, then I see no reason why we cannot use it on ia64 as well. > > > > Secondly: In vga_vid_config we need to actually probe for a VGA device. > > Can I assume that for sparc64 the legacy memory and I/O exists as well? > > Don't really know what you mean by legacy memory and I/O. Most sparc64 > machines have UPA graphics, which I imagine is quite different from vga, > I haven't looked into it, but there are some with just vga. Ok. I have one more file I need to submit (unhook sc0 from isa and hook it up to nexus0) With that I have syscons working (barely). For sparc64 you should be able to use that with any non-isa display adapter driver, provided you can probe (and use) it before newbus is useable. After that it should be mostly cleaning up, fleshing out, fixing and shuffling of code to make it look like it was designed up front :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-projects" in the body of the message
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