On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:26:06AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:01, "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote: > > >> As the KMS code does not switch the display mode back, once X with KMS > > starts, you can't get a console back. > > > > Is there any solution for this in the works? > > Yes. ray_at_ is currently being funded by the FreeBSD Foundation to > improve Newcons compatibility with KMS. The Newcons framework is > designed to improve layering in the console. The machine-dependent > part simply provides a framebuffer interface, the machine-independent > part provides the terminal emulator (this also means things like > unicode in the console will work, as will higher-resolution consoles). > It's currently used on a few non-x86 platforms, but it wasn't a > priority for x86 because the PC BIOS text console mostly works and > people who want a better terminal can just run X. It's now become a > priority because of the KMS integration with X.org. Once this work is > completed, we will switch to a new X.org by default and will use the > KMS interface within the kernel for selecting the video mode. Is there a rough ETA for this great improvement?
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