newcons comming

[Aleksandr Rybalko]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:18:47 +0300
Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net> wrote:

> Hello fellow hackers!
> 
> I finally reach the point when I can work with newcons instead of
> syscons on my laptop. Yes, I know it still buggy and have a lot of
> style(9) problems. But we really have to get it into HEAD and 10.0 to
> enable shiny new Xorg features, drivers, etc.
> 
> So I ask everyone to look "hard" into that[1] and tell me your opinion.
> I expect a lot of opinions, since it have to affect almost all good
> guys, as result I have to ask to split "bug reports" into two parts:
> 1. Should be done before merge to 10.0;
> 2. Can be done later.
> 
> If it possible, please do it(review - report) ASAP.
> I have plan to done it that way:
> 1. Merge newcons to head (in a few days);
> 2. Fix a lot of reported bugs (2 hrs :-D );
> 3. Persuade re@ about we need it in 10.0 (one week, maybe two);
> 4. Merge to 10.0;
> 5. One year AFK somewhere on Bahamas;^W^W^W^W^W^W^W
> 5. Add mouse cut-paste support;
> 6. Fix new bugs;
> 7. Some drinks.
> 
> What do we will have with newcons:
> * (Think it is main) Allow us to switch to fresh Xorg, which require
> KMS.
> * Graphic devices which can provide framebuffer access can be easily
> used as virtual terminals (someone may have pixel-LCD on front of PC
> tower, may found it useful :-D )
> * See [2].
> 
> TODO:
> * Lack of key mapping files, everyone can help with that using
> instructions on [3];
> * A bit slow (mostly scrolling affected).
> * Other bugs :)
> * See [2].
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] - http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/ed/newcons/
> [2] -
> http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.html#Continuation-of-the-Newcons-Project
> [3] -
> http://raybsd.blogspot.com/2013/10/newcons-international-keyboard-input.html
> 
> Hope you will love newcons!
> And maybe me too :)
> 
> WBW
> -- 
> Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net>

Forget to give a patch to HEAD, here it is:

http://people.freebsd.org/~ray/newcons/newcons_to_head_r257107_2013-10-25_1542.diff.gz

Thanks to all!

WBW
-- 
Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at freebsd.org>