Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:39:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa scvidctl.c videoio.c videoio.h syscons.c syscons.h src/sys/alpha/conf files.alpha src/sys/al Message-ID: <199809172139.XAA07834@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <xzplnnjhrbh.fsf@hrungnir.ifi.uio.no> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Co=EFdan__Sm=F8rgrav?= at "Sep 17, 98 02:11:30 pm"
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According to Dag-Erling Coïdan Smørgrav: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > probably revert whatever change caused this to happen by default since > > it's very evil and it didn't use to happen. Telling people to rebuild > > kernels with "PLEASE_DONT_FLICKER_AND_DRIVE_ME_CRAZY" is not much of > > an option since most folks don't RTFM anyway and they'll just conclude > > (rightly) that our console driver is broken. > > I agree that "flicker countermeasures" should be the default, but > please leave in a knob for turning them off when they're not needed. Exactly WHAT is it that makes the option needed at all? I mean the code works just fine with no-flicker... Why would you want the extra code that is turned off then you run in no-flicker? What does it do, since it's not needed? /Mikael
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