Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:03:15 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring sc console look and feel with vt Message-ID: <20170915200315.289b3fdf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20170916020243.B81507@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.83.1505476802.36054.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20170916020243.B81507@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 02:37:15 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 693, Issue 5, Message: 1 > On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:41:19 -0600 (MDT) > Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 07:49:32 -0600 (MDT) > > > Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Polytropon wrote: > > >> > > >>> My 10.3 loader doesn't seem to know that command. Do I need to > > >>> upgrade to 11? > > >> > > >> I think that's correct. There are a bunch of technologies involved, > > >> including kernel mode switching (video drivers) and possibly UEFI, and > > >> the gop command might only have appeared recently. Somebody(TM) ought > > >> to try to get a comprehensive overview of how it all ties together and > > >> write an article. > > > > > > I'm not seeing a gop command on my 11.1 box. > > > > It's a loader command. > > And as far as I can tell, entirely undocumented - though looking at the > commit messages for the file mentioned below might be helpful; I gave up > before trying. As mentioned, I'd grep'd source of mans for loader.conf > and pretty much everything else to do with booting and loader; not to > say I didn't miss something obvious to someone who actually knows this. > > Sorry about breaking threading by (albeit carefully) replying to the > digests, but to not waste the quite some time put into hunting this: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2017-September/278783.html > > That is, check /usr/src/sys/boot/efi/loader/arch/amd64/framebuffer.c > > So if this file appears in 11.1 - or 10.3? - then maybe somebody can > figure out what parameters might be fed to gop(0) and to what effect; > reading the whole code sort-of seems to offer some sort-of clues .. So it's not a surprise that my particular testing installation does not have a "gop" command in the loader. I'm using FreeBSD 10.3 (patched) i386 on a machine with BIOS (not UEFI). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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