From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 25 13:02:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DC05D0 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:02:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87F824DC for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from terran (unknown [192.168.99.1]) (Authenticated sender: ray) by smtp.dlink.ua (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EA617C4968 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:02:34 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:04:10 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newcons comming Message-Id: <20131025160410.b0571b32440703bd9a18ead9@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20131025151847.2a1b83de93335040797ceaf1@ddteam.net> References: <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 13:02:36 -0000 On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:18:47 +0300 Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > 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 Forget to give a patch to HEAD, here it is: http://people.freebsd.org/~ray/newcons/newcons_to_head_r257107_2013-10-25_1542.diff.gz Thanks to all! WBW -- Aleksandr Rybalko