From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 05:56:02 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B85393C for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 05:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu (i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5878253D for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 05:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C813806D for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 00:56:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id 5wgTHgxQ0Gss for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 00:56:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (polaris.tachypleus.net [75.101.50.44]) by i3mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 657503806C for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 00:56:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <536F10EF.3050807@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 22:55:59 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: HEADSUP: vt now default terminal driver on PowerPC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 05:56:02 -0000 I fixed the last remaining bugs in vt today and have repointed the PPC GENERIC and GENERIC64 kernel configurations on HEAD to use it instead of syscons. The largest visible changes should be a new font and support for UTF-8 at the system console. If you run into any difficulties, please report them to the list. -Nathan