HEADSUP: vt now default terminal driver on PowerPC

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at nsu.ru
Tue May 27 15:21:52 UTC 2014


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:55:59PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> I fixed the last remaining bugs in vt today and have repointed the PPC
> GENERIC and GENERIC64 kernel configurations on HEAD to use it instead of
> syscons. The largest visible changes should be a new font and support
> for UTF-8 at the system console. If you run into any difficulties,
> please report them to the list.

I've rebuilt my world+kernel on May the 18th, and vt(4) works flawlessly:
tty switching is instant, no video artifacts (contrary to my nVidia-based
x86 rig), UTF-8, etc. -- that is, on a Mac mini G4.  Great work Nathan!

I haven't typed "startx" yet (largely due to being afraid that all this
awesomeness will go away), but once I'd do, I'll report of the results. :)

./danfe


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