Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:40:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syscons by default? Message-ID: <20031203193755.G73007@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20031203230916.GA70189@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20031203230916.GA70189@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> It looks like syscons support is not enabled in GENERIC by default.
> Is there some lingering reason why this should be true? If we enable
> it by default then e.g. system console installs should work for
> 5.2-RELEASE, and people can use XFree86 out of the box.
Apparently because it only supports Creator and Creator3d cards. The
attachment function is easy but someone would have to write a framebuffer
driver.
That sinks my Ultra5, which has a ATI.
Looks like it has Apple fcode, though:
aty,fcode:
41 50 4c 2d 31 2e 30 62 33 36 00
'APL-1.0b36'
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