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Subject: Re: high resolution text modes
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In reply to =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= who wrote:
> 
> > > Erhm, You are not going to remove anything of that kind from
> > > syscons if thats what you want. I'll provide you with a interface
> > > for doing this if need be, but this will NOT go into syscons, or
> > > I'll resign as its maintainer.
> > 
> > Well, how about "option NEW_SYSCONS" for those who'd rather have a 100x30
> > (or better) console without having to do it per-vt or who want it before
> > multiuser mode ?
> 
> Soren, as I remember from our private mail, you put global text mode set
> and global "mouse on" in your TODO list, or I miss something?

Yes, I ahve a "global" mode on my todo list, but it does not imply
that all vt are created equal, it will only send a request for some
modesetting to be sent to all open vt's.
I am still VERY convinced that this belongs as a LKM, which can do
the magic eventually still via SVGAtextmode, which you allso has to run
with this hack.
I have promised to look this over, and se what can be done, but I
will still fight "non-std" modestuff in syscons to the end....
What I will do however is providing the hooks so this can be done
in a clean and extendable way.
This is not because I want to be a showstopper, but there are plans
to change syscons significantly after the 2.2 release, and this
HAS to fit into the bigger picture, or it will be gone again fairly
soon.

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.