From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 11 23:51:19 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275651551C; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:51:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02B21CA0; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:51:08 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Brian Somers , Kirk McKusick , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy In-Reply-To: Message from Josef Karthauser of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 02:00:32 GMT." <20000112020032.C95357@florence.pavilion.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:51:08 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000112075108.A02B21CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:28:03PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > XFree has to know about syscons etc.. because of the previous statement > > I made stating on XFree knows how to futz with the video card when its > > in graphics mode (non VESA). > > > > How many registers need to be set to get into text mode? Does syscons > only work in text mode by virtue of bios putting the screen in that mode > at boot time, or does it have enough smarts to do it itself? Unknown.. it's different on every card. THey have a standard VGA interface for text mode, but they all tend to have a "stop behaving like a VGA card and go native" switch for running in non-banked modes. This is different for every card.. which is why syscons can't do it as-is. Syscons would also have to stop things like any in-flight busmastering DMA etc.. The only way to do this is to move the hardware-specific parts of XFree into the kernel and provide a ddx device for XFree to use. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message