Re: port-amd64/52454: wsconsctl font size manipulation on amd64 arch

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/52454; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: feodor%logd.fr@localhost
Subject: Re: port-amd64/52454: wsconsctl font size manipulation on amd64 arch
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 10:05:46 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:35:01PM +0000, feodor wrote:
 >  This is really a different frambuffer between amd64 and i386 arch ? In
 >  that case, why ?
 
 No, not usually - but something goes wrong somewhere and so far we have
 no idea what and where. Fontload failure may be driver specific, so
 different drivers for console would be an easy explanation for the
 difference.
 
 > My two tests are on the same virtual machine.
 
 You did not mention that before (or I overlooked it).
 
 >  genfb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x80ee product 0xbeef (rev.
 >  0x00) genfb0: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, size 1024x768, depth 8, stride
 >  1024 wsdisplay0 at genfb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation),
 >  using wskbd0 wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
 >  drm at genfb0 not configured
 
 Is this part the same when booting i386?
 
 Martin