From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 15:21:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBE19765; Tue, 27 May 2014 15:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [84.237.50.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83E2C24F7; Tue, 27 May 2014 15:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from regency.nsu.ru ([193.124.210.26]) by mx.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WpJC8-0002DS-Bt; Tue, 27 May 2014 22:21:45 +0700 Received: from regency.nsu.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by regency.nsu.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s4RFLOHU009238; Tue, 27 May 2014 22:21:34 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: (from danfe@localhost) by regency.nsu.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id s4RFLJDf009182; Tue, 27 May 2014 22:21:19 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from danfe) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 22:21:19 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: HEADSUP: vt now default terminal driver on PowerPC Message-ID: <20140527152119.GA7567@regency.nsu.ru> References: <536F10EF.3050807@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <536F10EF.3050807@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-KLMS-Rule-ID: 1 X-KLMS-Message-Action: clean X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Lua-Profiles: 61802 [May 27 2014] X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Version: 5.3.6 X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Envelope-From: danfe@regency.nsu.ru X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Rate: 0 X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Status: not_detected X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Method: none X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Moebius-Timestamps: 2948764, 2948795, 2948757 X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Interceptor-Info: scan successful X-KLMS-AntiVirus: Kaspersky Security 8.0 for Linux Mail Server 8.0.0.455, not checked X-KLMS-AntiVirus-Status: NotChecked: not checked, skipped Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML 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: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:21:52 -0000 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