git: 3630506b9dae - main - loader: implement framebuffer console

[Cy Schubert]

Add screen.textmode=1 to /boot/loader.conf. You'll get text and depending 
on your card the font may or may not be acceptable.


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In message <alpine.GSO.2.20.2101061442250.66723 at localhost.local>, Dan Mack 
writ
es:
> I just builtworld/kernel:
>
>   FreeBSD nvserve 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #7
>   main-c255633-g3efe9b3e77c: Wed Jan  6 14:23:16 CST 2021
>   root at nvserve:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> from source ...
>
>   VGA console is still completly broken/in-operative.
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Peter Jeremy via dev-commits-src-all wrote:
>
> > On 2021-Jan-06 14:50:38 +0200, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 6. Jan 2021, at 12:33, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 2021-Jan-02 20:09:25 +0000, Toomas Soome <tsoome at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>>> The branch main has been updated by tsoome:
> >>>>
> >>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3630506b9daec9167a89bc45256
> 38ea45a00769e
> >>>
> >>> Note that this commit adds a hard build dependency on vtfontcvt(8)
> >>> but that tool is depends on the WITH_VT build option.  I suspect
> >>> that stand/fonts should be likewise dependent on WITH_VT
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Peter Jeremy
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for pointing this out. We actually need to build vtfontcvt uncondit
> ionally, in addition to font files, we also need it to generate C code for bu
> ilt in font (used when there are no /boot/fonts).
> >
> > That seems to assume that fonts are needed at all - I found this bug on
> > a Cloud instance that uses a serial console and has no real or simulated
> > graphical display "hardware".
> >
> > -- 
> > Peter Jeremy
> >
>