Subject: Re: WSDISPLAY_SCROLLSUPPORT by default?
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/12/2005 15:19:49
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On 2005.09.12 14:07:33 +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
| On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:52:02PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
| > On 2005.09.05 21:57:29 +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
| > | Hello,
| > |=20
| > | some time ago, WSDISPLAY_SCROLLSUPPORT was added to i386 GENERIC. If =
there
| > | are no problems with it, could it please be added to other GENERIC ke=
rnels
| > | (like GENERIC.MPACPI, GENERIC_LAPTOP, DISKLESS, maybe XEN0 and others,
| > | maybe also GENERIC for alpha if it is tested there)? Also, could it be
| > | pulled up to the netbsd-3 branch? It is very convenient and people are
| > | used to have scrollback support from other platforms.
| >=20
| > Let's start a discussion. I propose enabling WSDISPLAY_SCROLLSUPPORT on:
| > 	arch/i386/conf/GENERIC{.MPACPI,_LAPTOP}
| > 	arch/i386/conf/XEN0
| > 	arch/amd64/GENERIC
| >=20
| > And on other ports that developers feel confident. Anyone?
|=20
| I'm not a developer, but I successfully tested it on 3.0_BETA/alpha (164LX
| board, ATI Rage XL pci card). Could you please enable it in alpha GENERIC
| and request pullups?

WSDISPLAY_SCROLLSUPPORT has not much to do with the arch itself, but
instead it is dependant on the framebuffer. I would like to know the
opinion of other NetBSD/alpha users and the port master too.

		-- Rui Paulo

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