From olli at lurza.secnetix.de  Fri Feb  6 08:50:34 2009
From: olli at lurza.secnetix.de (Oliver Fromme)
Date: Fri Feb  6 10:22:20 2009
Subject: Graphics support for /boot/loader
Message-ID: <200902061650.n16GoVbx072904@lurza.secnetix.de>

Hi,

Since I started working on graphics support for our boot
loader, quite a few people have expressed interest in
helping me to test the code.

So I finally got around to prepared a tarball containing
a loader binary for public testing.  If you are eager to
give it a try, please feel free to do so.  It should work
with any FreeBSD version on i386 and amd64 platforms.

I have posted detailed instructions on the FreeBSD wiki:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest

Feedback is welcome.  Either mail me privately, or
discuss in public on the -hackers mailing list.

Known problems so far:
 - The first row of pixels is rendered incorrectly.
   Already fixed in my local source tree.
 - On CRT monitors you get a red border on the screen.
   Will be fixed.
 - Booting via PXE (pxeboot) doesn't work.
   Currently being investigated.
 - The design and layout of the text (menu etc.) is not
   final yet.  This will change.

Best regards
   Oliver

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From stas at FreeBSD.org  Wed Feb 18 10:06:27 2009
From: stas at FreeBSD.org (Stanislav Sedov)
Date: Wed Feb 18 10:21:28 2009
Subject: TeXLive
Message-ID: <20090218210618.28e6817a.stas@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi!

Thanks for throughout message about possibilities of
porting TexLive to FreeBSD. This work is highly
appeciated!

Personally, I think we should stick with #2 of your plan,
as going with #3 will bring too many ports (thousands?)
ports in our tree, which will be a nightmare to handle.
I don't think we're ready for such a number of new ports
in the three, even xorg with hundereds of ports slow
down ports tree utils a lot. Also, I don't think TeX users
ever want this kind of granularity. After all teTeX was
only several ports.

You may be also willing to take a look at this page, describing
TeXLive ports infrastructure for OpenBSD: 
http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/texlive/2008/

Good luck!

- -- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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