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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:44:20 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Flickering syscons
Message-ID:  <19980917164420.37485@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <27789.906037076@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:57:56AM -0700
References:  <199809171245.OAA06482@sos.freebsd.dk> <27789.906037076@time.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:57:56AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > I would rather that options SC_BAD_FLICKER was added to GENERIC, and
> > thats it, then we only need to find out why it doesn't work anymore...
> 
> I don't like the idea of adding it to GENERIC since that just makes
> one more "mandatory option" for folks who have vga devices which do
> this.  Again, I think the behavior of any part of the kernel should
> always be set to the most conservative values by default and then, if
> desired, provide knobs for being less conservative.  It's also more in
> keeping with our existing option set to do this.

Agreed.  However, does it actually have to be a kernel compile option,
as opposed to a sysctl (or vidctl) option?

Eivind.

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