Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:00:29 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the mythical syscons redesign document ( was Re: Porting wscons ) Message-ID: <20030122220029.GD590@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether> References: <20030122010246.52789.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> <1043236066.28124.6.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether>
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:36:26PM +0100, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > > > > The main sticking point for this stuff is that console is needed before > > the device tree is probed. > > The approach of KGI is to provide a very basic/minimal driver for console boot > that can be overlaped later by fully probed graphic board drivers. This is > somehow how VGA adapter is organized, with the video_switch used immediatly > and later the vga_isa.c glue-code for newbus full attachement. This is what makes it non-portable and why we have problems getting it to work in non-PC, non-ISA environments. > But I prefer the solution of the minimal driver with included text rendering > if needed. Booting a notebook in text mode looks ugly and I can imagine that early boot environments can be graphical as well. I prefer not to fixate on text-only video modes for the low-level console, even though we probably won't use it for anything but text. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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