Re: loadbsd and color Xorg wsfb/Amiga current status

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 17:54, Jukka Andberg <jukka.andberg%welho.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> David Brownlee wrote Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:17:36 +0000:
> > > Looks like amiga/dev/amidisplaycc.c 1.40 provides support for a multi
> > > bitplane wsfb? But I have no idea what else is required.
> >
> > Apologies to Jukka for just cc-ing him in mid-thread, but... have just
> > done that :)
> >
> > Jukka, would you be able to shed any light as to where NetBSD/amiga
> > might be with respect to possible Amiga planar format support to Xorg?
>
> In addition to the above there are also the wsfb driver changes:
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-video-wsfb/dist/src/wsfb_driver.c
> (at least 1.38 to 1.42 is needed)
> and xorg-server 1.20 is also needed.
>
> Those changes are now in -current and netbsd-10 branches.
> netbsd-9 branch has just the simple monochrome support.

Ah, so in netbsd-9 amiga was using the in-tree 1.10 server, while in
netbsd-10 and later its using 1.20 (NetBSD ships both to allow for
ports using older drivers)

I _could_ pullup the changes, complete with any changes to switch
amiga to xorg-server 1.20 (all all the distrib and set changes). I'm
not sure it would be accepted, given that the netbsd-10 release
process is underway and amiga binaries are already available
http://nyftp.netbsd.org/

I'm willing to be persuaded if people really think it's worth it?
Otherwise, Carlos - would you be able to test netbsd-10 from the above
link?

> > On a related note - is anyone aware of any reason why the GENERIC
> > amiga kernels can't be switched to wscons, with a fallback ite enabled
> > kernel just in case?
>
> No objection from me.

Excellent, if no-one else has any objections I may take a pass in
-current for that, looking towards pulling up to -10 before its full
release.

I'm trying to throw in some time on pullups and builds here as they
should be relatively quick for me to do, but I'm not precious about
any of this, and I really don't want to step on anything anyone else
might want to do or feel like is more their area (please just poke me
in the latter case).

Thanks

David