Re: newcons comming

From: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:34:27 +0300
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:27:49 +0200
Tijl Coosemans <tijl_at_coosemans.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:18:15 +0300 Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:10:44 +0100 symbolics_at_gmx.com wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:43:54AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >>> 3) Realise it's not yet ready for 10.0 or HEAD, and target it to be ready
> >>> for MFC for a 10.1 release.
> >>> 4) Delay 10.0 until this has matured enough in HEAD, then release it.
> >>> 
> >>> I really want to see more updated xorg support but the timing of it all
> >>> feels a little overly rushed for a 10.0 release target.
> >>> 
> >>> What do others think?
> >> 
> >> FWIW, I'm really looking forward to newcons but I don't think it should
> >> be rushed into a release. (3) Seems prudent.
> > 
> > Anyway it is optional.
> > 
> > s/device vt/#device vt/
> > s/#device sc/device sc/
> > 
> > and you in the old, well known world :)
> 
> I think you need to remove the kernel config changes from the patch
> and keep syscons the default for now.  There's no problem with putting
> experimental code in HEAD but it can't be the default from day 1.

Yeah, exact, it is enabled in patch just for easy testing.

Thanks!

WBW
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Aleksandr Rybalko <ray_at_freebsd.org>
Received on Fri Oct 25 2013 - 12:34:29 UTC

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