From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 06:44:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA09361 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 06:44:04 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA09330 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 06:43:51 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA29236; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 15:43:04 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id PAA08656 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 15:43:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA01503 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 15:42:04 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504021342.PAA01503@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: grafx console & DDB To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 15:42:03 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <9504021301.AA11049@login.dknet.dk> from "S|ren Schmidt" at Apr 2, 95 03:01:32 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1358 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As S|ren Schmidt wrote: > > Davidg has already confronted me with that idea, I had nothing > against it, but havn't heard more to it, just tell me the > variables name and it be in there (in syscons)... It would even be easy enough for me to stick it in myself... But we first need some consensus from the crowd. > > Before Terry jumps in: i know that this is not the generic solution. > > The console drivers should reinitialize the system's console via a > > vm86() call to the video BIOS -- but i don't see this solution around > > the corner within the next weeks. > > Why not, there was some vm86 patches posted here some time ago, and > somebody said they where working on it. When we have that > feature, it'll take a couble of hours getting syscons to use > that (don't know about pcvt though :-) ) This should not go in before 2.1 ships, IMHO. For pcvt, i've already thought about Terrys idea to move all the card dependant code out to an LKM (defaulting to a generic VGA lkm or such), and stick also all the X11 code there. Given my current load level, and the personal troubles i expect in the field of my paywork, it will take forever to implement it, however. :-( (See your .sig, Søren... :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)