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Date:      Sat, 29 Apr 1995 20:03:42 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5
Message-ID:  <uPUDcele28@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199504291441.KAA13651@hda.com>; from Peter Dufault at Sat, 29 Apr 1995 10:41:33 -0400 (EDT)
References:  <199504291441.KAA13651@hda.com>

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In message <199504291441.KAA13651@hda.com> Peter Dufault writes:

>>    The goal being to get principle probe messages on one line again and
>>    to display the various parameters using the SAME naming conventions used
>>    in userconfig to minimize confusion.  Some examples:
>> 
>> sc0: Syscons Console Driver, port 0x60-0x6f, irq 1 [VGA color] on ISA.
>> sc0: [16 virtual consoles]

>Or (switching to use the current devconf descriptions):

>sc0: Graphics console [VGA color, 16 consoles]: port 0x60-0x6f, irq 1 on ISA

>"Graphics console" is the description now in kern devconf.
>A possible new "more detail" entry is "VGA color, 16 consoles".

Speaking of syscons, you miss "flags 0xXX" which change cursor shape
and should be reported too.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3    : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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