Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:27 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 43096 for review Message-ID: <20031130003327.GA41631@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <1070143466.674.56.camel@leguin> References: <200311272203.hARM3Fpr044781@repoman.freebsd.org> <1070143466.674.56.camel@leguin>
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:04:27PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 14:03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=43096 > > > > Change 43096 by marcel@marcel_nfs on 2003/11/27 14:02:38 > > > > Add the KGI code. > > I like the sound of this. I've been working on the kdrive X Server > recently, and one of the things we need is card and mode initialization > from some source (vesa or fbdev on linux). I'd concluded that FreeBSD > would have to live with using the vesa kernel module to do that, but it > sounds like KGI should do much more of what we want. Things are pretty rough. This came directly from nsouch@ and he's been glueing against syscons. The first thing I need to do is cut through the various layers of glue and have a low-level console that uses the graphics drivers and is fully newbusified. Then I need to rebuild the terminal emulation on top of that... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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