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kern/59544: Add support for 256 colours to wscons
>Number: 59544
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: Add support for 256 colours to wscons
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 22 12:45:00 +0000 2025
>Originator: Crystal Kolipe
>Release: 10.1-release
>Organization:
Exotic Silicon
>Environment:
>Description:
The framebuffer console only supports direct selection of eight colours, with another eight being indirectly selectable using the highlight/bold attribute.
In the case of 32-bit rasops displays, the underlying hardware supports much more. As a first step, add support for direct selection of the bright colours for both foreground and background, as well as separately increasing the colour palette to 256.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
I posted a patch to the tech-kern mailing list to implement these two features:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2025/07/06/msg030599.html
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