Re: r269471 make unusable VT console

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:27:45 -0700
keep in mind that the vt_vga code will be used for new VGA bring-up on
hardware that exposes legacy VGA bits and pieces, at least until EFI
booting is guaranteed everywhere. Trying to do development on the
console of something using the current vt_vga in order to bring up
things like an ethernet driver will be .. special.


-a


On 15 August 2014 15:14, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray_at_ddteam.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:28:07 +0200
> Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm_at_fbsd.es> wrote:
>
>> > I believe it's still broken. There's a related PR at
>> > http://bugs.freebsd.org/192452 and, I suspect, 192456. Aleksandr, would
>> > you mind reverting this reversion? It seems to have created a lot of
>> > problems.
>> > -Nathan
>>
>> Yes, I think that ray_at_ is around here somewhere to fix this :P
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm_at_fbsd.es>
>
> Hi guys!
>
> Sorry for delay.
> Carlos, can you please share picture of such bad behaviuor?
> Looks like this mode almost unused novadays, so modern hardware have problems
> in implementations of this mode.
>
> Thanks!
>
> WBW
> --
> Aleksandr Rybalko <ray_at_ddteam.net>
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