From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 18 7:22:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fionn.sports.gov.uk (dns0.sports.gov.uk [195.89.151.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93621518A for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 07:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk) Received: from niamh.sports.gov.uk ([195.89.151.149] helo=fionn.sports.gov.uk) by fionn.sports.gov.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10jleO-0006l8-00; Tue, 18 May 1999 15:19:24 +0000 Message-ID: <37417711.A6F1673F@fionn.sports.gov.uk> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:20:01 +0100 From: Andrew Doran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kelly Yancey Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modex support (again) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> > > I'm not really sure what practical use there is for using graphics modes > > >to render text (and hence why character cell sizes for graphics modes What if FreeBSD ends up supporting mips or sparc? These machines don't have anything like VGA text modes, and PROM consoles suck. > > >that should be axed). Finally, with syscons having the ability to render > > >text fonts in graphics modes, shouldn't we be able to redefine the notion > > >of character cell size for graphics modes to be the default character cell > > >size and allow any available text font be used to render text in graphics > > >modes? NetBSD-current already does this particularly well, in all the common colordepths (but not Mode-X ;): sys/dev/wsfont (in-kernel font table) sys/dev/rasops (raster console "operation sets") sys/dev/wscons (the MI console) Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message