Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:34:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons update - when? Message-ID: <199901081634.IAA03132@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:34:33 %2B0900." <199901081234.VAA13287@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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> Ok, here is my plan. This all looks pretty good. > Stage 0. ------------------------------------------------------ > > This weekend I will commit the following new files. ... > dev/fb/fb.c > dev/fb/fbreg.c > dev/fb/splash.c > dev/fb/splashreg.c > dev/fb/vgareg.c Do we want to go ahead with the splash separate from the screensaver architecture? I guess it costs us nothing to back it out. > The new drivers are not yet activated. The users will be still using > existing syscons at this point. > > Stage 1. ------------------------------------------------------ > > On Sunday evening, the new keyboard driver will be activated. ... > The users are REQUIRED to update their kernel configuration files > to include the new keyboard driver. I will send out "HEADS UP" on > this. ... > Stage 2. ------------------------------------------------------ > > On 14, the new video card driver (and splash screen) will be > activated. ... > The users are REQUIRED to update their kernel configuration files to > include the new driver, again. I will send out "HEADS UP" on this > too. Is there a good reason not to group these two change sets together? I realise that they separate neatly, but it would seem from here that you could probably just group them together and be done with it. Apart from that: Yay! Go Kazu! -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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