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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:07:54 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Cc:        yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   HEADS UP: console code change
Message-ID:  <199909190907.SAA02241@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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Becase of the following change in /sys/dev/syscons, you need to
recompile both the kernel, the vesa module and screen savers.

# Well, if you don't use the vesa module and the screen savers, 
# you can forget about this :-)

Thank you for your cooperation.

Kazu

>yokota      1999/09/19 01:58:54 PDT
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/dev/syscons      schistory.c scmouse.c scvesactl.c 
>                         scvidctl.c syscons.c syscons.h 
>  Log:
>  - Hang the scr_stat struct from dev_t.
>  - Remove sc_get_scr_stat().  It's not necessary anymore.
>  - Call ttymalloc() to allocate the struct tty for each vty, rather than
>    statically declaring an array of struct tty.  We still need a statically
>    allocated struct tty for the first vty which is used for the kernel
>    console I/O, though.
>  - Likewise, call ttymalloc() for /dev/sysmouse and /dev/consolectl.
>  - Delete unnecessary test on the pointer struct tty *tp in some functions.
>  - Delete unused code in scmouse.c.
>  
>  WARNING: this change requires you to recompile screen savers!


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