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_at_ 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 <ray_at_ddteam.net>Received on Fri Oct 25 2013 - 10:17:20 UTC
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