Re: amd64 9.1, pre-wscons text colours?

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:39:53PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
 > NetBSD/amd64, 9.1.
 > 
 > What controls the colours used for console text output before wscons
 > takes over?  When I build a kernel with WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN and no
 > WS_KERNEL_BG, I see green on black, both before and after the switch
 > from text mode to text-in-graphics mode.  WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_BLACK and
 > WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLACK, and both are black-on-black.
 > 
 > But WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_LIGHT_BROWN (I wanted yellow, that looks like
 > the closeset available approximation) and WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLUE?
 > Once wscons switches, everything is as I would expect - but, before
 > that, it's white on black!
 > 
 > So there's clearly something I don't understand going on.  What?

That's all wscons; drmkms taking over isn't the same step as wscons
taking over. But anyway: my guess is that you can't use the bright
colors. I vaguely recall some issue with that long ago...

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