svn commit: r197085 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/syscons

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Sat Sep 12 00:18:52 UTC 2009


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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 10 September 2009 10:07:25 pm Xin LI wrote:
>> Author: delphij
>> Date: Fri Sep 11 02:07:24 2009
>> New Revision: 197085
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197085
>>
>> Log:
>>   Extend the usage of sc(4)'s hint variable 'flag'.  Bit 0x80 now means
>>   "set vesa mode" and higher 16bits of the flag would be the desired mode.
>>   
>>   One can now set, for instance, hint.sc.0.flags=0x01680180, which means
>>   that the system should set VESA mode 0x168 upon boot.
>>   
>>   Submitted by:	paradox <ddkprog yahoo com>, swell k at gmail.com with
>>   		some minor changes.
> 
> Ugh, I don't like overloading flags this much.  The historical usage of flags 
> was due to userconfig only letting one set a single flags property for a 
> given device.  Since moving to hints we now support free-form text 
> properties.  I would much prefer this be implemented by 
> setting 'hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=XXX' instead.

Oh I thought that hints does not work that way in the past.  I have make
change to make syscons work in this way, thanks for your suggestion!

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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