Re: Defaulting WSCONS in NetBSD/amiga GENERIC

Frank Wille <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:19:41 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.amiga
Organization Privates Internet Ostwestfalen/Lippe e.V.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Brownlee wrote:

> So, it looks like the following might not be supported by wscons
> - grf1 & grf2  Retina Z2/Z3
> - grf3         Cirrus boards
> - grf4         A2410 video

I'm pretty sure that I added wscons support to grf_cl.c, which means grf3.


> So a blocker on any change to defauling wscons would be to get those
> drivers to support wscons, at least for console text (given the X
> servers we have right now are wscons enabled anyway). Do people have
> hardware to test changes?

That was exactly my problem, a few years ago. For all other cards I either
had the hardware myself, or testers at hand. A2410 is extremely rare.

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Frank Wille