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Date:      Wed, 6 Jan 2021 14:43:43 -0600 (CST)
From:      Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
Cc:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>, Toomas Soome <tsoome@freebsd.org>,  src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org,  dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 3630506b9dae - main - loader: implement framebuffer console
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.20.2101061442250.66723@localhost.local>
In-Reply-To: <X/Yfo6g8o8PJ0qNn@server.rulingia.com>
References:  <202101022009.102K9PRl075016@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <X/WSFQ8jPbgto4jQ@server.rulingia.com> <51035B54-FF30-41EE-BC4A-3D4E0ABD1B13@me.com> <X/Yfo6g8o8PJ0qNn@server.rulingia.com>

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I just builtworld/kernel:

  FreeBSD nvserve 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #7
  main-c255633-g3efe9b3e77c: Wed Jan  6 14:23:16 CST 2021
  root@nvserve:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC  amd64

from source ...

  VGA console is still completly broken/in-operative.

Dan

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Peter Jeremy via dev-commits-src-all wrote:

> On 2021-Jan-06 14:50:38 +0200, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 6. Jan 2021, at 12:33, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2021-Jan-02 20:09:25 +0000, Toomas Soome <tsoome@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> The branch main has been updated by tsoome:
>>>>
>>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3630506b9daec9167a89bc4525638ea45a00769e
>>>
>>> Note that this commit adds a hard build dependency on vtfontcvt(8)
>>> but that tool is depends on the WITH_VT build option.  I suspect
>>> that stand/fonts should be likewise dependent on WITH_VT
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Jeremy
>>
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out. We actually need to build vtfontcvt unconditionally, in addition to font files, we also need it to generate C code for built in font (used when there are no /boot/fonts).
>
> That seems to assume that fonts are needed at all - I found this bug on
> a Cloud instance that uses a serial console and has no real or simulated
> graphical display "hardware".
>
> -- 
> Peter Jeremy
>



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