Re: [CFT] xboxfb with vt(9) (a.k.a. newcons)

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:47:36 pm Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:35:39 +0000
> Ed Schouten <edschouten_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > On Wed Jan 15 2014 at 1:43:56 PM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray_at_freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I've just committed update to xboxfb driver for vt(9). But I have
> > > no HW to test on. So if anybody have HW and time/wish to test it,
> > > please help me.
> > 
> > 
> > As I also mentioned to you privately, I think it might actually be
> > wiser to just drop Xbox support entirely. The Xbox support was a
> > funny thing back then, but I suspect it has actually outlived its
> > usefulness.
> > 
> > The original Xbox only has a 733 MHz Celeron CPU, 64 MB of RAM and a
> > 10 GB harddisk. I don't think there are that many people left who
> > want to run FreeBSD 11 on it.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Ed
> 
> Hi folks!
> 
> Ed, Raspberry-Pi has more RAM, almost same CPU clock and no HDD at all
> and people use it :)
> 
> Since it already in HEAD I would prefer to left it here for some time.
> So other will be able to use it as example. But even for that better to
> know if it works, to not waste time of users or hackers who will try to
> use it. :)

If you don't find anyone who is able to test this, then you probably should
remove it.  If someone steps up to test it, then it can stay, but it is
hard to keep code around that no one tests.

-- 
John Baldwin