Add or fix options to control static and dynamic configuration. Keep
the default of scteken, but default to statically configuring all available
emulators (now 3 instead of 1).
The dumb emulator is almost usable. libedit and libreadline handle
dumb terminals perfectly for at least shell history. less(1) works
as well as possible except on exit. But curses programs make messes.
The dumb emulator has strange color support, with 2 dumb colors for
normal output but fancy colorization for the cursor, mouse pointer and
(with a non-dumb initial emulator) for low-level console output.
Using the sc emulator instead of the default of scteken fixes at least
the following bugs:
- NUL is a printing character in cons25 but not in teken
- teken doesn't support fixed colors for "reverse" video.
- The best versions of sc are about 10 times faster than scteken (for
printing to the frame buffer). This version is only about 5 times
faster.
Fix configuration features:
- make SC_DFLT_TERM (for setting the initial emulator) a normal option.
Add configuration features:
- negative options SC_NO_TERM_* for omitting emulators in the static config.
Modules for emulators might work, but I don't know of any
- vidcontrol -e shows the available emulators
- vidcontrol -E <emulator> sets the active emulator.
or 4 CPUs. Add a compile-time option SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTRS to control the
defaults.
Default to color numbers in reverse order to CPU numbers (instead of
in the same order with white first and wrapping to dark grey), so that
the brightest bright colors are used first. Don't use dark grey at all;
replace it by dark green.
Syscons has too many compile-time options, but this one is needed in
in case the defaults give something like white on white, or the user
really hates this feature and can't wait to turn it off in rc.
MFC after: next release?
rS274085 made vt(4) the default system console. Catch up to this in
the man page description for the kern.vty tunable.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (hrs)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6901
bottom of the manpages and order them consistently.
GNU groff doesn't care about the ordering, and doesn't even mention
CAVEATS and SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS as common sections and where to put
them.
Found by: mdocml lint run
Reviewed by: ru
"set vesa mode" and higher 16bits of the flag would be the desired mode.
One can now set, for instance, hint.sc.0.flags=0x01680180, which means
that the system should set VESA mode 0x168 upon boot.
Submitted by: paradox <ddkprog yahoo com>, swell k at gmail.com with
some minor changes.
same behavior to be controlled by the sysctls, hw.syscons.kbd_kbdkey
and hw.syscons.kbd_reboot respectively.
Apologies to the submitter for taking so long to commit this simple
change.
PR: kern/72728
Submitted by: Luca Morettoni <morettoni at libero dot it>
MFC After: 3 days
- Change lines referring to kernel configuration file:
device foo0 at isa port xxx irq yyy...
to
device foo
Describe resource "hints" in /boot/device.hints.
- Try to describe resource allocation and probe/attach behavior in the
newbus framework.
- SC_CUT_SPACES2TABS - when copying text into the cut buffer convert leading
spaces into the tabs;
- SC_CUT_SEPCHARS="XYZ" - treat supplied characters as possible words
separators when the driver searches for words boundaries when doing cut
operation.
Also unify cut code a bit to decrease amount of duplicated code. This fixes
line cut mode, so that it is no longer pads line with useless spaces.
Approved by: ru
- mention koi8-u and cp866u fonts;
- describe 1024-byte limit on amount of data that is possible to paste from
the syscons cut buffer.
MFC after: 1 day
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.
