RE: Re: Defaulting WSCONS in NetBSD/amiga GENERIC

["Harald Meinzer" <funlife%freenet.de@localhost>]

I tested WSCONS on Cybervison 64, Cybervision64/3D and Merlin... that works!

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> Betreff: Re: Defaulting WSCONS in NetBSD/amiga GENERIC

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 21:19, Frank Wille wrote:

> >

> > 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 the WSCONS kernel should probably not be disabling grf3 then?

>

> > > 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.

>

> I think it's a judgement call, but at some point it's better to focus

> on a better experience for the hardware people that are using NetBSD

> have available, and leave a note for anyone in the future that a

> driver would be welcomed... :)

>

> David

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