Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 22:21:19 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: vt now default terminal driver on PowerPC Message-ID: <20140527152119.GA7567@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <536F10EF.3050807@freebsd.org> References: <536F10EF.3050807@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:55:59PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > 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. I've rebuilt my world+kernel on May the 18th, and vt(4) works flawlessly: tty switching is instant, no video artifacts (contrary to my nVidia-based x86 rig), UTF-8, etc. -- that is, on a Mac mini G4. Great work Nathan! I haven't typed "startx" yet (largely due to being afraid that all this awesomeness will go away), but once I'd do, I'll report of the results. :) ./danfe
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