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- Add a Q2 report entry for the recent Newcons work

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<!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013
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existing committer received extension in this quarter.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Newcons Reboot</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Aleksandr</given>
<common>Rybalko</common>
</name>
<email>ray@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The purpose of the Newcons project is to provide a new
interface for console and video output to graphic devices. This
will allow simple drivers access the console and terminal mode
early, and framebuffer access for <tt>xorg</tt>. Drivers will
not need embedded font bitmaps, color maps, or mouse cursor
bitmaps, as the whole infrastructure will be provided by the
<tt>vt(4)</tt> Newcons driver.</p>
<p>As the project includes Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) integration,
one of the goals is support for modern Xorg releases, allowing
the kernel to switch back to virtual terminal mode after
graphics mode or resolution used with <tt>xorg</tt> changes.</p>
<p>There are a lot of changes involved in the project. Main tasks
include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Core functionality (almost done).</li>
<li>Mouse support.</li>
<li>KMS (kernel mode setting) support.</li>
<li>USB keyboard support.</li>
<li>Splash screen support (partially working).</li>
<li>Driver support.</li>
<li><tt>vidcontrol(1)</tt> support.</li>
</ul>
<p>The first deliverables of the project, including
<tt>moused(8)</tt>, <tt>ukbd(4)</tt>, and KMS support are expected
to arrive around the middle or end of August 2013. The whole
project is expected to complete in November 2013.</p>
<p>This project is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
<p>Many thanks to Ed Schouten who started Newcons project and did
most of the work.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Provide different flavors of hardware for testing the
implementation. Do not hesitate to volunteer when a call for
testing is announced.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>