From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 25 12:17:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5524F60D for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@ddteam.net) Received: from smtp.dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135A121F9 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from terran (unknown [192.168.99.1]) (Authenticated sender: ray) by smtp.dlink.ua (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F1DF1C4985 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:17:11 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:18:47 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: newcons comming Message-Id: <20131025151847.2a1b83de93335040797ceaf1@ddteam.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:17:20 -0000 Hello fellow hackers! I finally reach the point when I can work with newcons instead of syscons on my laptop. Yes, I know it still buggy and have a lot of style(9) problems. But we really have to get it into HEAD and 10.0 to enable shiny new Xorg features, drivers, etc. So I ask everyone to look "hard" into that[1] and tell me your opinion. I expect a lot of opinions, since it have to affect almost all good guys, as result I have to ask to split "bug reports" into two parts: 1. Should be done before merge to 10.0; 2. Can be done later. If it possible, please do it(review - report) ASAP. I have plan to done it that way: 1. Merge newcons to head (in a few days); 2. Fix a lot of reported bugs (2 hrs :-D ); 3. Persuade re@ about we need it in 10.0 (one week, maybe two); 4. Merge to 10.0; 5. One year AFK somewhere on Bahamas;^W^W^W^W^W^W^W 5. Add mouse cut-paste support; 6. Fix new bugs; 7. Some drinks. What do we will have with newcons: * (Think it is main) Allow us to switch to fresh Xorg, which require KMS. * Graphic devices which can provide framebuffer access can be easily used as virtual terminals (someone may have pixel-LCD on front of PC tower, may found it useful :-D ) * See [2]. TODO: * Lack of key mapping files, everyone can help with that using instructions on [3]; * A bit slow (mostly scrolling affected). * Other bugs :) * See [2]. Thanks! [1] - http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/ed/newcons/ [2] - http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.html#Continuation-of-the-Newcons-Project [3] - http://raybsd.blogspot.com/2013/10/newcons-international-keyboard-input.html Hope you will love newcons! And maybe me too :) WBW -- Aleksandr Rybalko