From 1f51274d507b89192d655615f162aec5fac05f74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glen Barber Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:05:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Refresh the vt(4) entry with the latest version. Submitted by: ray Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- .../news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml | 35 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml index e6d5185956..72df860971 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml @@ -246,6 +246,14 @@ ed@FreeBSD.org + + + + Warren + Block + + wblock@FreeBSD.org + @@ -260,22 +268,25 @@ integration with graphics modes and broader character set support.

-

Since the last report, - vt(4) gained the ability to make early driver - selection. vt(4) selects the best successfully - probed driver before most of kernel subsystems. Also, to make - easy migration from syscons(4) to vt(4), - multiple virtual terminal subsystems in the kernel are now - supported, and it is controlled by a small module with just - one kernel environment variable kern.vty=syscons or +

Since last report + vt(4) got ability to make early driver selection. + vt(4) select best successfully probed driver before + most of kernel subsystems. Also, to make easy migration from + syscons(4) to vt(4), multiple virtual + terminal subsystems in the kernel are now supported and it is + controlled by a small module with just one kernel environment + variable kern.vty=syscons or kern.vty=vt.

The GENERIC kernel configuration for the amd64 and i386 platforms include both syscons(4) and vt(4) - by default. Such configuration also planned to be in next - 10-STABLE release, expected to be included in - &os; 10.1-RELEASE.

+ by default. This configuration is also planned to be in the + next 10-STABLE release and &os; 10.1-RELEASE.

+ +

Project finally get his man page, so now vt(4) not + only project name, but also link to its documentation. Great + thanks to &a.wblock; for that.

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