From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 00:05:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@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 C77A228E; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9AE8A25F1; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s6E05GIA088784; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:05:16 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from gjb@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s6E05G4Q088783; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:05:16 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201407140005.s6E05G4Q088783@svn.freebsd.org> From: Glen Barber Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:05:16 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45278 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:05:16 -0000 Author: gjb Date: Mon Jul 14 00:05:16 2014 New Revision: 45278 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45278 Log: Refresh the vt(4) entry with the latest version. Submitted by: ray Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Sun Jul 13 23:17:31 2014 (r45277) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 00:05:16 2014 (r45278) @@ -246,6 +246,14 @@ ed@FreeBSD.org + + + + Warren + Block + + wblock@FreeBSD.org + @@ -260,22 +268,25 @@ integration with graphics modes and broader character set support.

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Since the last report, - vt(4) gained the ability to make early driver - selection. vt(4) selects the best successfully - probed driver before most of kernel subsystems. Also, to make - easy migration from syscons(4) to vt(4), - multiple virtual terminal subsystems in the kernel are now - supported, and it is controlled by a small module with just - one kernel environment variable kern.vty=syscons or +

Since last report + vt(4) got ability to make early driver selection. + vt(4) select best successfully probed driver before + most of kernel subsystems. Also, to make easy migration from + syscons(4) to vt(4), multiple virtual + terminal subsystems in the kernel are now supported and it is + controlled by a small module with just one kernel environment + variable kern.vty=syscons or kern.vty=vt.

The GENERIC kernel configuration for the amd64 and i386 platforms include both syscons(4) and vt(4) - by default. Such configuration also planned to be in next - 10-STABLE release, expected to be included in - &os; 10.1-RELEASE.

+ by default. This configuration is also planned to be in the + next 10-STABLE release and &os; 10.1-RELEASE.

+ +

Project finally get his man page, so now vt(4) not + only project name, but also link to its documentation. Great + thanks to &a.wblock; for that.

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