Re: loadbsd and color Xorg wsfb/Amiga current status

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 12:49, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 12:44, Frank Wille <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote:
>>
>> >   1. Roc Vallès developed a patch for loadbsd to re-enable the long
>> > broken serial console support [1].
>> > [...]
>> > My question: what is the status of these two updates?
>>
>> I was in contact with Roc last September and updated both the loadbsd.c
>> source and the binary for the distribution archive.
>>
>>
>> > Did they make
>> > into NetBSD 9.3 or are they in NetBSD-current for the next release?
>> > (NetBSD 9.4?)
>>
>> No. I didn't do any pull-up requests for NetBSD-9. So it won't appear
>> before
>> NetBSD-10 I guess.
>>
>> Maybe I should do that? I think anybody can do such a request and include
>> my
>> commit messages from the 6th of September.
>
>
> I don't have a machine handy to test, but I'm happy to test the patch to
> netbsd-9 and make a distribution available for someone to quickly check?
> (then submit the pullup once confirmed)
>

I should read the commit before emailing! It should Just Work unless there
is something very bizarre in the build, but will go ahead and confirm that
netbsd-9 builds with it (I may as well test it for netbsd-8 while I'm there)

David