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Hello,

On Jul 29, 2007, at 14:19, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> Hello,
>
> [ CC'ing NetBSD/shark port master ]
>
> I've spent the whole evening tracking down a problem in the shark's 
> installation (screen corruption) that turned out to be a bug in the 
> pccons driver [1].  It's now fixed, but I'm wondering why INSTALL 
> still uses pccons.
>
> GENERIC uses wscons, which works pretty well after macallan@'s 
> changes.  Furthermore, and AFAIK, the install kernel does not have a 
> size limit in this platform. (After all, both INSTALL and GENERIC are 
> loaded with the same procedure.  And if GENERIC unconditionally uses 
> wscons, it is not really a problem for INSTALL to use it too.

INSTALL must be really out of sync then - wscons worked pretty well 
before I did anything, it used the vga driver in text mode.

> So:
>
> 1. Can I switch the INSTALL kernel to use wscons?

Can't think of a reason why not.

>    I'd tend to stick to plain vga instead of igsfb, contrary to what
>    GENERIC does.  The framebuffer is nice an all, but it's slow...

igsfb makes sense if you want a high resolution console or X - neither 
applies to INSTALL.

> 2. After the above, any reason not to kill pccons and remove it from
>    the tree?

Can't think of any.

> 3. Somewhat related, can I make sysinst enable wscons support in
>    rc.conf as part of a regular install?  This can also involve adding
>    a keyboard-layout chooser in sysinst as i386 has.

Can't think of a reason not to do that - we support wscons on all shark 
models after all.

have fun
Michael
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