syscons MAXCONS option

[Ryan McIntosh]

I've been an avid user of FreeBSD for terminal based things, and I love to 
keep terms open on a console only server.. however this leads to the default 
limitation of syscons, kbdmap, and kbdcontrol where you can only have 16 
consoles due to the definition of F_SCR (0x0b) and L_SCR (0x1a) in /usr/src/
sys/sys/kbio.h. I know the kernel option of MAXCONS does increase the console 
count, however, if you go higher than 16, syscons does show the current max 
set by that definition, but you can't actually use the consoles due to a 
check in /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c that won't allow it to go higher 
than L_SCR, and also both kbdmap and kbdcontrol have this same check. Is it 
possible to have this fixed, since MAXCONS really doesn't do much, other than 
max out at 16 consoles. I just keep modifying L_SCR in /usr/src/sys/sys/
kbio.h to what i set MAXCONS to + 10 (of course in hex though, I haven't read 
through all of it to see exactly why everything is how it is, but F_SCR 
starts on 11, so there's a gap of 10..?), kinda simple.. is it possible to 
have this fixed? i keep having to do it manually, and would like to be able 
to just define it in the kernel config and not have to run rampant through 
the src to get the define to work.. or if someone wanted to, be able to set 
it dynamically? :-) Thanks.


Ryan McIntosh
rmcintosh at nitemare.net