Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 18:41:55 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reasons for keeping sc(4) and libvgl ? Message-ID: <7981e765-38d7-9a3f-a222-c2e36ccd7b64@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <CACc-My2sLZ8yFfVrX1P_UP1b4Bpf4V3bY=Qh6-ewXX3Vu%2BY-Dw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20211126160454.3eb827365a02103169ab9adc@bidouilliste.com> <CACc-My0%2B5zi9bsMpLWsOMmP8uiatTCBiJcvkOAS_3%2BXfrNWMvQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2Dr0rEWxVYofskV-BULp%2BOKfW2SA-bvhmePpnUiayOw0w@mail.gmail.com> <CACc-My2sLZ8yFfVrX1P_UP1b4Bpf4V3bY=Qh6-ewXX3Vu%2BY-Dw@mail.gmail.com>
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27.11.2021 2:06, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > When time comes and I have to buy computers that do no longer support > CSM, I'll look into the sc source to add a VGA BIOS interrupt call to > change from UEFI graphics to text mode at initialization time. > This should be sufficient to support sc on UEFI machines. > Actually I do not understand why this has not yet been done. > Do you think such a patch to make sc work on UEFI systems would be > accepted into FreeBSD? I've been told there are UEFI variants that do not support old text mode at all.
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