From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 26 20:54:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@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 ESMTP id 78AD1D63; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FEC2375; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rnote.ddteam.net (169-25-135-95.pool.ukrtel.net [95.135.25.169]) (Authenticated sender: ray) by smtp.dlink.ua (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D599BC492D; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:54:39 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:54:37 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: newcons comming Message-Id: <20131026235437.51861b22.ray@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20131025151847.2a1b83de93335040797ceaf1@ddteam.net> <20131025160410.b0571b32440703bd9a18ead9@freebsd.org> <20131025163939.181f35483b1046d74cb77fec@freebsd.org> <20131025141044.GA26481@lemon> <20131025171815.23ff76c5d7090006af9f53e2@freebsd.org> Organization: FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current , symbolics@gmx.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:54:41 -0000 On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:55:26 -0700 Adrian Chadd wrote: > I think the best thing to do is address kib's issues and whatever > else pops up in the review, then add it into -HEAD as the non-default > console type. > > What I'd hate to see is some build time dependency where xorg > _requires_ you to run newcons in order to run X. Well, at least just > right now. > > I have a whole bunch of older hardware that I won't have access to > for a couple more weeks (old netbooks, thinkpads, etc) that I'd like > to run newcons and the latest xorg builds on, just to make sure we > haven't broken things for stuff circa 2005-2006. There's still a lot > of that stuff out there and right now xorg+console works fine for > those. Ok awaiting for report how it run on your old boxes :) > > Thanks, > > > > -adrian > > > > On 25 October 2013 07:18, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:10:44 +0100 > > symbolics@gmx.com wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:43:54AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > 3) Realise it's not yet ready for 10.0 or HEAD, and target it > > > > to be > > ready > > > > for MFC for a 10.1 release. > > > > 4) Delay 10.0 until this has matured enough in HEAD, then > > > > release it. > > > > > > > > I really want to see more updated xorg support but the timing > > > > of it all feels a little overly rushed for a 10.0 release > > > > target. > > > > > > > > What do others think? > > > > > > > > > > FWIW, I'm really looking forward to newcons but I don't think it > > > should be rushed into a release. (3) Seems prudent. > > > > Anyway it is optional. > > > > s/device vt/#device vt/ > > s/#device sc/device sc/ > > > > and you in the old, well known world :) > > > > > > > > --sym > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > -- > > Aleksandr Rybalko > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Aleksandr Rybalko