From owner-p4-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 16:33:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: p4-projects@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id D524716A4DB; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:36 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: perforce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E1616A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D58843F3F for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAU0XVEG014391; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) hAU0XRWx041702; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hAU0XRCs041701; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:33:27 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Eric Anholt Message-ID: <20031130003327.GA41631@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200311272203.hARM3Fpr044781@repoman.freebsd.org> <1070143466.674.56.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1070143466.674.56.camel@leguin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Perforce Change Reviews Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 43096 for review X-BeenThere: p4-projects@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: p4 projects tree changes List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:33:37 -0000 On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:04:27PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 14:03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=43096 > > > > Change 43096 by marcel@marcel_nfs on 2003/11/27 14:02:38 > > > > Add the KGI code. > > I like the sound of this. I've been working on the kdrive X Server > recently, and one of the things we need is card and mode initialization > from some source (vesa or fbdev on linux). I'd concluded that FreeBSD > would have to live with using the vesa kernel module to do that, but it > sounds like KGI should do much more of what we want. Things are pretty rough. This came directly from nsouch@ and he's been glueing against syscons. The first thing I need to do is cut through the various layers of glue and have a low-level console that uses the graphics drivers and is fully newbusified. Then I need to rebuild the terminal emulation on top of that... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net