wscons for FreeBSD?

[Sergey Babkin]

John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On Friday 28 October 2005 01:24 pm, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> > >From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> > >

> > * When entering panic/debugger mode the console
> >   should reset its video mode to the one where
> >   the panic information is visible.
> 
> I think this might be kind of hard since you really don't know what X has done
> to the hardware unless you make X talk to the console driver to do
> everything.

Can you re-initialize the device from scratch? My knowledge
about the video hardware dates to SVGA times and even that
is not too deep.

Maybe provide a basic SVGA re-initialization routine on x86 and have
an interface for the third-party in-kernel drivers that
would contain the re-initialization routine.

-SB