development of framebuffer driver hi res console

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:46 +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:
> On 2008-05-16 19:15:19 (+0800), ketracel <ketracel at internode.on.net> wrote:
> > Any FreeBSD developers out there working on a Framebuffer driver which
> > provides modern high resolution modes (including widescreen) for the system
> > console?
> 
> Not specifically working on a high-res framebuffer, but I'm working on
> divorcing the framebuffer from syscons.  Once that work is done, it should be
> possible to write more "advanced" framebuffer drivers.

And the graphics developers are already porting their drivers to the
kernel to provide the framebuffer part.  What it would take to port that
to FreeBSD has been outlined elsewhere.

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com

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