Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:39:13 +0100 From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org> To: Mark Cartwright <sirloper@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Terminal Emulation Message-ID: <200403102039.i2AKdDmg026836@ludwigV.sources.org> In-Reply-To: <20040310182734.3368.qmail@web21503.mail.yahoo.com> (Mark Cartwright <sirloper@yahoo.com>'s message of Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:27:34 PST)
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On Wednesday 10 March 2004, at 10 h 27, the keyboard of Mark Cartwright <sirloper@yahoo.com> wrote: > I know well that currently console emulation on > freebsd/sparc64 more or less doesn't exist, It has been reported as sparc64/62448 but, unfortunately, immediately closed (not even downgraded to wishlist, closed, as if the problem didn't exist). > I am not a developer, but I can't > imagine it would be that difficult to borrow some code > from the other BSD's (opena and net) which both are > capable of running X locally and have full support for > the sun terminal type. I confirm that NetBSD installation program works fine on the Sun console. There was another report that it may be sufficient to copy the termcap: Subject: Re: sparc64/62448: Terminal Type during install From: Ilya Varlashkin <ilya@samara.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: liddle@thphys.ox.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:37:05 +0000 On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:29:12PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Synopsis: Terminal Type during install > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: kris > State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 6 18:28:01 PST 2004 > State-Changed-Why: > It's documented in the release notes, and discussed extensively on the > mailing list, that installing via the system console is not yet supported. > Use a serial console instead for now. > Kris, is there copyright problem with termcap? After the installation of FreeBSD on my Ultra-10 I'd just copied definition from Solaris and normal console (not serial) works just fine. If Sun didn't copyright/patent their termcap could it just be incorporated into FreeBSD? By the way, file id appeared to be the same on Solaris and FreeBSD, but content is different. Kind regards, Ilya Varlashkin
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