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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 23 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 24 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
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<p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Updated <tt>vt(9)</tt> System Console</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Aleksandr</given>
<common>Rybalko</common>
</name>
<email>ray@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ed</given>
<common>Maste</common>
</name>
<email>emaste@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons">Project wiki page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Colloquially known as Newcons, <tt>vt(9)</tt> is a modern
replacement for the existing, quite old, virtual terminal
emulator called <tt>syscons(4)</tt>. Initially motivated by the
lack of Unicode support in <tt>syscons(4)</tt>, the project was
later expanded to cover the new requirement to support Kernel
Mode Switching (KMS).</p>
<p>The project is now approaching completion and is ready for
wider testing as the related code was already merged to &os;
<tt>head</tt>. Hence, <tt>vt(9)</tt> can be tested easily by
replacing the following two lines in the kernel config file:</p>
<pre>device sc
device vga</pre>
<p>with the following ones:</p>
<pre>device vt
device vt_vga</pre>
<p>Major highlights:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unicode support.</li>
<li>Double-width character support for CJK characters.</li>
<li><tt>xterm(1)</tt>-like terminal emulation.</li>
<li>Support for Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) drivers
(<tt>i915kms</tt>, <tt>radeonkms</tt>).</li>
<li>Support for different fonts per terminal window.</li>
<li>Simplified drivers.</li>
</ul>
<p>Brief status of supported architectures and hardware:</p>
<ul>
<li>amd64 (VGA/<tt>i915kms</tt>/<tt>radeonkms</tt>) &mdash; works.</li>
<li>ARM framebuffer &mdash; works.</li>
<li>i386 (VGA/<tt>i915kms</tt>/<tt>radeonkms</tt>) &mdash; works.</li>
<li>IA64 &mdash; untested.</li>
<li>MIPS &mdash; untested.</li>
<li>PPC and PPC64 &mdash; Works, but without X.Org yet.</li>
<li>SPARC &mdash; works on certain hardware (eg. Ultra 5).</li>
<li><tt>vesa(4)</tt> &mdash; in progress.</li>
<li>i386/amd64 nVidia driver &mdash; need testing.</li>
<li>Xbox framebuffer driver &mdash; need testing.</li>
</ul>
<p>Known Issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Switching to <tt>vty0</tt> from X.Org on Fatal events will not work.</li>
<li>Certain hardware (eg. Lenovo X220) get black screen when i915kms is preloaded.</li>
<li>Scrolling can be slow;</li>
<li>Screen borders is not cleared when changing fonts.</li>
<li><tt>vt(9)</tt> locks up with the <tt>gallant12x22</tt> font in VirtualBox.</li>
</ul>
<p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation. Many thanks
to Ed Schouten, who originally started the Newcons project and
did most of the work.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Create sub-directories for <tt>vt(9)</tt> under
<tt>/usr/share/</tt> to store key maps and fonts.</task>
<task>Implement remaining features supported by
<tt>vidcontrol(1)</tt>.</task>
<task>Write the <tt>vt(9)</tt> manual page.</task>
<task>Support keyboard handled directly by device <tt>kbd</tt>
(without <tt>kbdmux(4)</tt>).</task>
<task>CJK fonts (in progress).</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>