Right now syscons(4) uses a cons25-style terminal emulator. The
disadvantages of that are:
- Little compatibility with embedded devices with serial interfaces.
- Bad bandwidth efficiency, mainly because of the lack of scrolling
regions.
- A very hard transition path to support for modern character sets like
UTF-8.
Our terminal emulation library, libteken, has been supporting
xterm-style terminal emulation for months, so flip the switch and make
everyone use an xterm-style console driver.
I still have to enable this on i386. Right now pc98 and i386 share the
same /etc/ttys file. I'm not going to switch pc98, because it uses its
own Kanji-capable cons25 emulator.
IMPORTANT: What to do if things go wrong (i.e. graphical artifacts):
- Run the application inside script(1), try to reduce the problem and
send me the log file.
- In the mean time, you can run `vidcontrol -T cons25' and `export
TERM=cons25' so you can run applications the same way you did before.
You can also build your kernel with `options TEKEN_CONS25' to make all
virtual terminals use the cons25 emulator by default.
Discussed on: current@
stepped down some time ago, about the same time as Giorgos Keramidas
joined the team.
PR: 140465
Submitted by: Denny Lin <dennylin93@cnmc32.hs.ntnu.edu.tw>
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone:
Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11
Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5
Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5
The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times).
MFC after: 3 days
attach chips with generic Marvell (non-HighPoint) PCI identification.
These chips are also supported by ata(4). Some vendors, like Supermicro,
are using same chips without providing HPT RAID BIOS.
PR: kern/120842, kern/136750
- ANSIfy prototypes;
- Add __unused for parameters that is not being currently used;
- Add a header for subrountines being called from other modules.
Reviewed by: mjacob
- New region: Asia/Novokuznetsk
- Kemerovo oblast' (Kemerovo region) in Russia will change current
time zone on 29 March 2010
- Add historical data for Hongkong 1941 - 1980
- Syria will go to winter time in the last weekend of October 2009.
MFC after: 2 days
In r198272 I didn't notice that watchdog(8) and watchdogd(8)
are different things and instead of fixing watchdogd markup
I simply nuked the line.
Noticed by: emaste
Pointy hat to: avg
- Somoa has not moved to DST this year (comment only)
- Bangladesh stays on DST for now.
- Pakistan went back to standard time in 1 October 2009
MFC after: 1 week
and a google search yields no alternative). Remove the links but
keep the entries around for reference.
PR: 139756
Submitted by: Patrick Oonk <patrick@pine.nl>
MFC after: 3 days
handlers. This is primarily intended as a way to allow devices that use
multiple interrupts (e.g. MSI) to meaningfully distinguish the various
interrupt handlers.
- Add a new BUS_DESCRIBE_INTR() method to the bus interface to associate
a description with an active interrupt handler setup by BUS_SETUP_INTR.
It has a default method (bus_generic_describe_intr()) which simply passes
the request up to the parent device.
- Add a bus_describe_intr() wrapper around BUS_DESCRIBE_INTR() that supports
printf(9) style formatting using var args.
- Reserve MAXCOMLEN bytes in the intr_handler structure to hold the name of
an interrupt handler and copy the name passed to intr_event_add_handler()
into that buffer instead of just saving the pointer to the name.
- Add a new intr_event_describe_handler() which appends a description string
to an interrupt handler's name.
- Implement support for interrupt descriptions on amd64 and i386 by having
the nexus(4) driver supply a custom bus_describe_intr method that invokes
a new intr_describe() MD routine which in turn looks up the associated
interrupt event and invokes intr_event_describe_handler().
Requested by: many
Reviewed by: scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks
